Bug#1104854: binNMUs can cause ma-same violations in eg manpages
On Wed, May 07, 2025 at 08:39:58PM +0100, Simon McVittie wrote:
> On Wed, 07 May 2025 at 20:57:15 +0200, Bill Allombert wrote:
> > By changing SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH in what is purported to be a 'binary-only upload'
> > we are breaking the reproducible build semantic.
>
> How so? We're changing the build environment (that's the point of doing a
> binNMU) and the version number (because otherwise our systems wouldn't
> upgrade to the rebuilt package) so of course we expect the result to be
> different.
Precisely, SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH was introduced to make builds more reproducible.
and not to solve the binNMU problem which predates reproducible builds by a
long time.
Cheers,
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Bill. <ballombe@debian.org>
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