Source: bash Version: 4.3-14 Severity: wishlist User: [email protected] Usertags: timestamps
Hi, While working on the “reproducible builds” effort [1], we have noticed that bash could not be built reproducibly. There are two problems: 1. Bash uses an embedded copy of man2html which produces html that contains timestamps, it is recommended to drop this internal copy and instead depend on the Debian man2html which contains a patch [4]. 2. The pdf files created by dvipdfmx contain fonts with indeterministic order and naming [2]. This can be fixed by not generating the pdf in the first place as gnu codding standards makes pdf generation optional [3]. This has to be solved upstream. Regards, akira [1]: https://wiki.debian.org/ReproducibleBuilds [2]: https://reproducible.debian.net/issues/unstable/fonts_in_pdf_files_issue.html [3]: https://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/standards.html#Standard-Targets [4]: http://sources.debian.net/src/man2html/1.6g-8/debian/patches/035-source-date-epoch.patch/
