Subject: Re: [bug#48726] [PATCH] gnu: nsis: Respect SOURCE-DATE-EPOCH for reproducibility

From: Carl Dong <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 30 May 2021 18:54:16 +0000

Maxime,

> One question: does upstream know about the patch?
Yup! In fact it’s already merged: https://github.com/kichik/nsis/pull/13

> If accepted upstream, then other distro's will automatically
> be a little more reproducible as well. In the mean time
> (or if the patch isn't accepted upstream) we can patch nsis in guix.
There’s no release with this patch yet, so I think we should patch it in guix for now and remove the patch once a release comes out with this patch included.

Cheers,
Carl Dong
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"I fight for the users"