Make package release dates reproducible

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Make package release dates reproducible #667

Closed innir closed 5 months ago

innir commented 5 months ago

Using string(TIMESTAMP ...) respects SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH since CMake 3.8, which makes it possible to fix the date used as release date in AppStream metadata and Fedora packaging.

I didn't change the PACKAGE_RFC_DATE as %z was anlyadded in CMake 3.26 and I didn't want to raise the required CMake version. Might be an option to just remove the in-tree Debian packaging finally?

manisandro commented 5 months ago

Thanks - I guess the in-tree distro packaging can also be removed if there is a downside keeping it. Indeed also for Fedora and OpenSuse the specs are managed separately in the respective build environments.

bmwiedemann commented 4 months ago

coming from openSUSE: For .spec files, it does not hurt, if they are also in git / tar. It can even help in packaging when updates require changes to the .spec file.