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From: Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/1] Perl 5.24.0 update
Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2016 18:49:16 -0400
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On Tue, Aug 16, 2016 at 06:43:57PM -0400, Leo Famulari wrote:
> And the perl-no-build-time patch deactivated the code that embedded the
> compilation timestamp that is normally printed by `perl -V`. Perl 5.24.0
> can take this value from the macro PERL_BUILD_DATE [2], so I removed the
> old patch and added perl-reproducible-build-date.patch.
> 
> I don't love this patch... we could instead do something like what
> happens in the Erlang package. There we instead get SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH
> from the environment and do some format string transformations to make a
> pretty date string.

We could also just keep the perl-no-build-time patch in place. There is
not much point in doing work just to make `perl -V` print a nonsense
date (Unix epoch) IMO.