Re: [PATCH PING] Honor 'SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH' when generating autoloads.

[Ludovic Courtès]

John Wiegley <address@hidden> skribis:

>>>>>> Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
>
>>> This is obviously the first patch of a series. It does not make Emacs
>>> itself bit-reproducible, but it makes Emacs packages bit-reproducible.
>
>> I'd prefer to have the whole series, to see where this is going, and then
>> commit them in one go. But that's me. John?
>
> Yes, I too would like to see this evolve on a feature branch until the whole
> series is ready, after which Eli and I can review before moving into master.
>
> How does that sound, Alex, Ludovic?

>From the Guix viewpoint, we need an immediate fix for this issue.  So
we’ll be using the patch I posted until Emacs has an appropriate
solution, which may be along the lines of what Paul suggested.

We’ll surely look at making Emacs itself reproducible (and perhaps the
Debian folks already have patches floating around), but no ETA.

Thanks,
Ludo’.