Notes for noweb - reproducible builds result

Version annotated: 2.11b-9
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_dvi_generated_by_latex
URL https://wiki.debian.org/ReproducibleBuilds/TimestampsInDviGeneratedByLaTeX
Description The creation date of the DVI file is the current time.
Bugs noted: 788536
Comments: bug #788536 documents unreproducibility based on the "icon"
program in noweb's toolchain.
 

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