towards reproducible packages
Hello.
I have added the following suggestion in debian-ada-policy. Feel free
to comment or disapprove before anything is published.
Recommendation: If an Ada source is patched, preprocessed, generated or
otherwise modified during the build process, its modification time
should be enforced to the date of the last entry in the Debian
changelog.
Rationale: An ALI file currently embeds the modification time of all
associated sources. Dates depending on the build time cause
unreproducible @code{-dev} packages. Please see
@uref{https://wiki.debian.org/ReproducibleBuilds/TimestampsInAdaLibraryInformationFiles}
for more details.
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