* Dmitry Bogatov <KAction@gnu.org>, 2015-09-30, 18:28:
We try to minimize external dependencies (even a package maintainer is a dependency in the process). So we were hoping/looking for something like (its a C++ library):#if defined(PACKAGE_BUILD) && !defined(CRYPTOPP_INIT_PRIORITY) # pragma message "It is recommended you define CRYPTOPP_INIT_PRIORITY." # pragma message "See https://cryptopp.com/wiki/Config.h for details." #endifProbably you may be interested in SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH variable.
No, please don't abuse this variable for purposes unrelated to reproducibility.
Reproducible build team toolchain set this variable, and it is going to get it's way into official debhelper repository (did it already?).
(It didn't.) -- Jakub Wilk