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Allow for reproducible builds #210

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  • use NEWS file time instead of current time
  • allow to override hostname via $HOSTNAME

See https://reproducible-builds.org/ for why this is good.

This date call works with GNU date and BSD date.

The alternative to this patch would be to drop both completely.

This PR was done while working on reproducible builds for openSUSE.

* use NEWS file time instead of current time
* allow to override hostname via $HOSTNAME

See https://reproducible-builds.org/ for why this is good.
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Thank you! We are planning to merge this imminently.

@ch4rr0 ch4rr0 merged commit 30c4187 into BenLangmead:master Apr 16, 2019
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