Re: [PATCH] doc: make gzipped man pages reproducible

Subject: Re: [PATCH] doc: make gzipped man pages reproducible

Date: Sat, 11 Jul 2020 14:02:36 -0300

To: Jonas Witschel, notmuch@notmuchmail.org

Cc:

From: David Bremner


Jonas Witschel <diabonas@archlinux.org> writes:

> gzip includes the name of the uncompressed file and its modification
> timestamp into the compressed archive. The latter makes it hard to
> reproduce the generated files bit for bit at a later time, so omit this
> information from the archive using the "--no-name" option. This is a
> reproducibility best practice, see
> https://wiki.debian.org/ReproducibleBuilds/TimestampsInGzipHeaders

Applied to master. Thanks for your contribution.

David
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