Hello Dhole, I'm sorry it took so long to address this problem, and by the time I had a look at that, your patch wasn't enough anymore, but I'm very thankful for your work, we used a part of it to make rsync reproducible, and I mentioned your contribution on the changelog.
I just uploaded 3.1.3-4, which should be the fully reproducible rsync [package] release :) Regards, -- Samuel Henrique <samueloph>