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From: Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>
To: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: 23776@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#23776: Perl's .pod files include timestamps, making Perl package builds non-deterministic
Date: Sun, 19 Jun 2016 13:31:54 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160619173154.GA26953@jasmine> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160616153927.GB2245@jasmine>

On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 11:39:27AM -0400, Leo Famulari wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 01:33:46PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> > The problem is described in <git://git.debian.org/git/reproducible/notes.git>:
> > 
> > --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> > timestamps_in_documentation_generated_by_podman:
> >   description: |
> >     The module Pod::Man includes timestamps in its embedded manpages:
> >     http://sources.debian.net/src/perl/latest/cpan/podlators/lib/Pod/Man.pm/?hl=1700#L977
> >     They should be based on the mtime of the original file.
> >   url: https://wiki.debian.org/ReproducibleBuilds/TimestampsInManpagesGeneratedByPodMan
> 
> According to the information on this page, we should set POD_MAN_DATE
> while building. Should we make the perl-build-system export this
> variable? Set to SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH?

I noticed that Pod::Man is supposed to respect SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH, as of
the upstream module version 4.03 (released 2015-12-06). Does anyone know
how to check the version of the module bundled into perl?

[0]
https://metacpan.org/pod/Pod::Man#date

[1]
https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/software/podlators/news.html

  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-06-19 17:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-06-16 11:33 bug#23776: Perl's .pod files include timestamps, making Perl package builds non-deterministic Ludovic Courtès
2016-06-16 15:39 ` Leo Famulari
2016-06-17  8:11   ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-06-17 18:50     ` Leo Famulari
2016-06-18 20:35       ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-06-19 17:31   ` Leo Famulari [this message]
2016-06-25 18:23     ` Leo Famulari
2016-07-30  9:28       ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-01-11 22:27     ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-01-12 17:24       ` Marius Bakke
2017-01-13  8:02         ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-10-31 15:17           ` Ludovic Courtès

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