Subject: Re: bug#22533: Python bytecode reproducibility

From: Ricardo Wurmus <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 03 Feb 2019 22:22:23 +0100

Ricardo Wurmus <[email-masked]> writes:

> Now that we’re using Python 3.7 and this version supports hash-based pyc
> files, is this still an issue?  Do we need to do anything to enable
> hash-based pyc compilation?
>
> See:
>   https://docs.python.org/3/whatsnew/3.7.html#pep-552-hash-based-pyc-files
>   https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0552/

It looks like this is no longer a problem.  I built borg just now and
the pyc files are reproducible.

(The man pages include a date stamp, though, which I’m trying to patch
now.)

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Ricardo