Bug#897627: tex: please support SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH for dvi too

[Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at>]

Hi Bill,

> > tex is tex as DEK wanted it. Please use etex, which is the pdftex binary
> > producing dvi.

Well, tex the name has already a copyright that makes this necessary.

> Maybe this could be documented in the manpage ? There is already:

Any suggestion for a paragraph?

> I think it is likely that if this bug is closed without changes, someone
> else will open it again.

Then again, it is about knowing the TeX & friends setup, which is not
completely trivial a thing.

> What about latex ?

latex is a format, and since some years already requires the etex
extensions, so if you run any kind of latex you know that it will
necessarily have etex extensions. That is, with latex/pdflatex you are
using the pdfetex engine, which has support for SDE.

Best

Norbert

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