Notes for epix - reproducible builds result

Version annotated: 1.2.14-1
Identified issues:
Identifier: users_and_groups_in_tarball
URL https://wiki.debian.org/ReproducibleBuilds/UsersAndGroupsInTarballs
Description Tarballs capture user and group for each of its members.
Identifier: timestamps_in_tarball
URL https://wiki.debian.org/ReproducibleBuilds/TimestampsInTarball
Description Tarballs capture build time in mtime of its members.
Identifier: different_due_to_umask
Description Files have varying permissions because of different umasks.
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.
Comments: Also contains a timestamps in automatically created header file.
 

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