[bug#70169] [PATCH v2 04/12] maint: Help help2man generate reproducible man-pages.

[Janneke Nieuwenhuizen <janneke@gnu.org>]

Ludovic Courtès writes:

Hi,

> "pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" <pelzflorian@pelzflorian.de> skribis:
>
>> Looking at the now gone instructions from “git show
>> 83c60bb0622440afe98930820186ddfa1e6e8b2f”, at that time, a timestamp of
>> 1 was used for the tarball; I do not remember why.  In
>> guix/scripts/pack.scm, 1 is used for squashfs and docker images.
>
> In the store, a timestamp of 1 (not 0) is used.  This is because there
> are tools (among which ‘make’ IIRC) that behave differently when mtime
> is zero.
>
> For consistency and to be on the safe side, it’s probably a good idea to
> do the same (as the fallback in this case).

Okay, will change for v3.