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

["Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>]

Hello,

"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).

Ludo’.