Debian and SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH=0

[Holger Levsen]

On Sat, Feb 14, 2026 at 10:20:08PM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> The Nix build daemon (and thus the Guix daemon) “forever” used mtime = 1
> to work around software that gives mtime == 0 special treatment:

*g*

I was surprised when I first heard setting S_D_E to 0 or then to 1, but I
havent really heard downsides to that. I do think that setting S_D_E to the
real value, the last modification of the source, has benefits, but in cases
where that is unclear/ambigious, IMO setting S_D_E to 1 is very fine.


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cheers,
	Holger

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