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[bug #57218] [PATCH] Reproducible builds support is broken and embeds ti


From: Ingo Schwarze
Subject: [bug #57218] [PATCH] Reproducible builds support is broken and embeds timezone
Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2020 13:37:21 -0400 (EDT)
User-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; OpenBSD amd64; rv:81.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/81.0

Follow-up Comment #4, bug #57218 (project groff):

I think groff should not write %%CreationDate into PostScript files it
creates.  Not because of reproducible builds, which i consider a useless and
even detrimental feature, but because of privacy concerns.  That would also
solve this so-called "problem" as a side effect.

Basically, it amounts to something like deleting these lines from
src/devices/grops/ps.cpp:

  {
    fputs("%%CreationDate: ", out.get_file());
  #ifdef LONG_FOR_TIME_T
    long
  #else
    time_t
  #endif
    t = current_time();
    fputs(ctime(&t), out.get_file());
  }

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