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[Julian Gilbey <jdg@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Sep 25, 2020 at 06:22:33PM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote:
> * tony mancill:
> 
> > I had already prepared the NMU for openjdk-15 - building first without
> > the patch and then with it so I could test with both - so I will go
> > ahead and upload that package today.
> 
> There's also an upstream change to honor SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH:
> 
> commit 1a16a4b62829e54a4af5446ef15b981212a70718
> Author: Magnus Ihse Bursie <ihse@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date:   Thu May 7 17:47:11 2020 +0200
> 
>     8244592: Start supporting SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH
>     
>     Reviewed-by: erikj
> 
> It requires configuring with --with-source-date, I think.

Oh, interesting.  That could be very helpful for this.  But we would
have to be careful, as dh_strip_nondeterminism replaces timestamps
with the date in the most recent debian/changelog entry, so we might
have to exclude the relevant files from the dh_... invocation.

Best wishes,

   Julian