On Sat, Nov 28, 2015 at 12:08:44AM +0000, Steven Chamberlain wrote: > > FWIW, I'm not exactly entirely convinced by the exporting of the > > SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH variable from debian/rules; all other variables have > > been passed without exporting so I'm wondering if we shouldn't adapt > > this to behave like other variables, reducing possible surprise for > > users. > > Just to explain that -- if it's defined in the environment, it requires > no special handling and doesn't need to be (re-)exported. I think this > is maybe the case now for dpkg-buildpackage in sid?
it's not, dpkg hasn't merged that patch (tbh I'm not even sure we
forwarded that). Though debhelper exports SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH when using
the dh sequencer.
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