[rb-general] Clarification re SOURCE_BUILD_EPOCH and clamping

Dan Kegel dank at kegel.com
Sat Jun 24 05:03:12 CEST 2017


https://reproducible-builds.org/specs/source-date-epoch/
says
"Upstream build processes MUST use this variable for embedded
timestamps in place of the "current" date and time."
but https://github.com/rpm-software-management/rpm/pull/144 and others
interpret that as not a mandatory timestamp, but rather a limit on the
maximum timestamp.

The spec doesn't seem to allow that, does the spec need updating?


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