On Fri, Jul 22, 2016 at 12:14:56PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> I think that's fine in this case, since not setting that variable doesn't
> break the build. It just means the build isn't reproducible, which is an
> optional feature.
1/ it's an optional feature *for now*. I'd really love to see it being
mandated asap.
2/ it can break the build: I don't know if this is already present in
some package out there, but just think of calling a tool 'foo'
setting a cli flag 'bar' to SDE:
foo --bar="$(SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH)"
for example, using tar:
tar --mtime="@$(SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH)" -c -f out.tar in
this is a valid command when SDE is set, but it's going to fail as
soon as it's not set anymore, I fear; and it makes a lot of sense in
a d/rules to tar something up.
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