On 18 April 2015 at 15:22, Johannes Ranke wrote: | Am Samstag, 18. April 2015, 06:27:03 schrieb Dirk Eddelbuettel: | > On 18 April 2015 at 11:15, Philip Rinn wrote: | > | Hi, | > | | > | I think this patch is more what I wanted. | > | It now sets the build-timestamp to the time of the last changelog entry if | > | the maintainer does not set builttimeStamp explicitly. | > | With this change almost all GNU R packages in Debian would automatically | > | build reproducible. | > | > And I presume that is what we want? I never heard from the reproducibility | > group after I made the two patches (cf old bug report) to R itself and | > r-cran.mk. | | Without having further background information I would say that the build- | timestamp should be either set to the build time (to carry correct | information) or not at all (to have reproducible builds).
Context: R _always_ puts one hin, hence the discussion in the earlier bug report and my (long-accepted) upstream ptahc to be able to override. What Philip is suggesting here is to use the hook I provided with a suitable value -- the timestamp from debian/changelog. I think I'll do that. Dirk, at a workshop | Johannes | | > Too bad you sent me this today. I just made four uploads of R in the last | > few days leading up to R 3.2.0. | > | > Dirk | > | > | Best, | > | Philip | > | | > | x[DELETED ATTACHMENT usable_builttimeStamp2.patch, text/x-patch] | > | x[DELETED ATTACHMENT signature.asc, application/pgp-signature] -- http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | [email protected] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
