On Thu, Nov 05, 2015 at 11:07:49AM +0000, Chris Lamb wrote: > Source: gettext > Version: 0.19.6-1 > Severity: wishlist > Tags: patch > User: [email protected] > Usertags: timestamps > X-Debbugs-Cc: [email protected] > > Hi, > > Whilst working on the "reproducible builds" effort [0], we noticed that > the gettextize tool generates ChangeLog files and entries which include > the current date, rendering generated builds unreproducible (eg. avahi). > The timestamps are also additionally timezone-specific. > > The attached patch modifies gettextize to respect SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH[1] > if available.
The gettextize tool should probably not be called automatically, only by hand. That's why the autopoint program exists. If you have any occurrence where gettextize works while autopoint does not, I'm sure upstream gettext maintainers would like to hear about that. Othwerise, this is a wontfix-not-to-be-forwarded-upstream issue, much like Bug #792687. Thanks.
