On Sun, Jul 09, 2023 at 11:59:04AM -0500, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > At 2023-07-09T13:24:27+0100, Colin Watson wrote: > > On Sun, Jul 09, 2023 at 02:42:55AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > > > So, how about the attached patch? > > > > I somehow neglected to update doc/groff.texi. Here's an updated > > version. > > I have no objection to this patch. I think Colin is right that none > but reproducible-build mavens are going to use $SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH. > > I am curious to see some concrete examples of the sorts of shenanigans > TZ is used for in reproducible build testing, which foreclose the groff > 1.23.0 approach as far as Debian (and presumably others) are concerned.
https://salsa.debian.org/reproducible-builds/reprotest/-/blob/master/reprotest/build.py is the only thing I have to hand; if you search for "TZ" in that you'll find code that runs a pair of builds with TZ=GMT+12 and TZ=GMT-14 to try to catch some extremes. -- Colin Watson (he/him) [cjwat...@debian.org]
