Bug#796490: [texlive-latex-base] pdflatex does not create reproducible pdfs with multiple images
Hi all,
On Sat, 22 Aug 2015, Sandro Knauß wrote:
> While testing why the owncloudClient pdf is not reproducible, we found a bug
> in pdflatex. The minimal document to triggerthis bug is a document with 4
I kind of disagree that this is a bug. It is a decision by the
pdftex developers to embed time stamps.
Not the whole world is interested in reproducible builds.
If this is a requirement, then someone has to provide patches
and maybe command line options to activate this, and discuss this
with upstream pdftex development, and xetex and luatex and ptex
and any other engine, too.
All the best
Norbert
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