Use NEWS date instead of build date #88
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Great idea, but could you use the NEWS file instead? Since the git times the ChangeLog is not used anymore (I should clean it up.). |
to make builds reproducible. See https://reproducible-builds.org/ for why this is good. This date call works with GNU date and (some?) BSD date.
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Updated it. |
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Thanks a lot. |
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Use ChangeLog date instead of build date
to make builds reproducible.
See https://reproducible-builds.org/ for why this is good.
This date call works with GNU date and (some?) BSD date.
Unfortunately, the ChangeLog files seems to not get updated often.
One alternative would be to use
SOURCE_DATE_EPOCHanother way is to update these values as constants with a script in git before release