Subject: bug#23776: Perl's .pod files include timestamps, making Perl package builds non-deterministic

From: Leo Famulari <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2016 14:23:05 -0400

On Sun, Jun 19, 2016 at 01:31:54PM -0400, Leo Famulari wrote:
> I noticed that Pod::Man is supposed to respect SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH, as of
> the upstream module version 4.03 (released 2015-12-06). Does anyone know
> how to check the version of the module bundled into perl?

In Perl 5.24.0, the integrated podlators module was upgraded from 2.28
from 4.0.7 [0].

AIUI, changing perl-build-system will require rebuilding all Perl
packages. If so, how about updating Perl to 5.24.0 instead of changing
the build system?

Do Perl updates tend to break a lot of Perl packages? If so, changing
the build system and rebuilding might be done sooner than a Perl update,
since this change seems unlikely to break any packages.

Your advice requested :)

[0]
https://metacpan.org/pod/distribution/perl/pod/perldelta.pod#Updated-Modules-and-Pragmata