GNU bug report logs - #23776
Perl's .pod files include timestamps, making Perl package builds non-deterministic

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From: ludo <at> gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Marius Bakke <mbakke <at> fastmail.com>
Cc: 23776-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Leo Famulari <leo <at> famulari.name>
Subject: Re: bug#23776: Perl's .pod files include timestamps,
 making Perl package builds non-deterministic
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2017 16:17:35 +0100

ludo <at> gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) skribis:

> Marius Bakke <mbakke <at> fastmail.com> skribis:
>
>> Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org> writes:

[...]

>>> For the record, even though Pod::Man supposedly honors SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH
>>> as of Perl 5.24, we still have this problem:
>>>
>>> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
>>> $ diff -r /gnu/store/hczskszmhm2l65vy8nv990lzc5dk3ln9-perl-algorithm-c3-0.10{,-check}
>>> diff -r /gnu/store/hczskszmhm2l65vy8nv990lzc5dk3ln9-perl-algorithm-c3-0.10/lib/perl5/5.24.0/x86_64-linux-thread-multi/perllocal.pod /gnu/store/hczskszmhm2l65vy8nv990lzc5dk3ln9-perl-algorithm-c3-0.10-check/lib/perl5/5.24.0/x86_64-linux-thread-multi/perllocal.pod
>>> 1c1
>>> < =head2 Wed Jan 11 22:20:36 2017: C<Module> L<Algorithm::C3|Algorithm::C3>
>>> ---
>>>> =head2 Wed Jan 11 22:20:34 2017: C<Module> L<Algorithm::C3|Algorithm::C3>
>>> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>>
>> Isn't this fixed by be12f4e27505edd87c4aa457fec43dd0fee23b79 from
>> 'core-updates'?
>
> Oh, probably!  I had forgotten about it, thanks for the heads-up.

Closing this bug!

Ludo’.

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