Notes for gmsh - reproducible builds result

Version annotated: 2.8.5+dfsg-1.1
Identified issues:
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.
Identifier: diffoscope_runs_forever
URL https://reproducible.debian.net/index_breakages.html
Description Some packages cannot be analysed by diffoscope due to it running "forever".
Currently the diffoscope process is killed after 120 minutes.
https://reproducible.debian.net/index_breakages.html collects a list of currently
undiffable packages (as well as other issues with tests.reproducile-builds.org.
Identifier: user_hostname_manually_added_requiring_further_investigation
Description Packages which intentionally capture the username or hostname into a custom format,
but aren't obviously using any tool or system which has this as a core issue.
Interesting because they could be fixed by fixing these things at build time.
Identifier: blacklisted_on_jenkins
Description Some packages have been blacklisted in our test infrastructure because
their build hangs, takes too long, spawns processes that are not killed, or
simply because they use too many resources for our current capacity. (This
is purely practical step - we would like to test these packages.)
 

Our notes about issues affecting packages are stored in notes.git and are targeted at packages in Debian in 'unstable/amd64' (unless they say otherwise).