Bug#795443: ocaml: please make the ocamldoc date configurable

[Stéphane Glondu <glondu@debian.org>]

Le 14/08/2015 02:25, Chris Lamb a écrit :
> While working on the "reproducible builds" effort [1], we have noticed
> that ocamldoc always generates manpages with the current date.
> 
> The attached patch adds a -man-date argument to ocamldoc to accept any
> arbitrary string.

This is the same as #794586, but the exposed interface is different
(#794586 uses the SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH environment variable for passing the
date).

> An alternative would be to accept a UNIX timestamp and then format that
> but a patch for that would be more invasive. The UNIX manpage format
> accepts mostly any value here anyway, so this isn't too restrictive.

Why do you say it would be more intrusive? It seems to me that the patch
from #794586 does that and is not so more intrusive...

I've already applied the patch from #794586 (and uploaded it to
experimental yesterday). Both patches could be applied, but is this
-man-date really needed if we already have SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH?

Cheers,

-- 
Stéphane