Notes for debian-history - reproducible builds result

Version annotated: 2.19
Identified issues:
Identifier: timestamps_in_ps_generated_by_dvips
Description eg. %%CreationDate (or DVIPSSource?) in header
.
https://sources.debian.net/src/texlive-bin/latest/texk/web2c/pdftexdir/pdftex.web/#L14449
.
DVIPSSource date Can be set to SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH by setting FORCE_SOURCE_DATE to 1.
Identifier: timestamps_in_epub
Description epub files are zip files, and hence have a timestamp in them.
Identifier: timestamps_in_pdf_generated_by_latex
URL https://wiki.debian.org/ReproducibleBuilds/TimestampsInPDFGeneratedByLaTeX
Description PDF files generated with pdftex and pdflatex will contain CreationDate and
ModDate set to the current date and time.
Comments: Timezone in .html files fixed by passing --utc to the date command
in debian/rules.
Random bookid in .epub files, similar to
random_identifiers_in_epub_files_generated_by_asciidoc, but not
generated with asciidoc.
 

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