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[Florian Weimer <fw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

* Julian Gilbey:

> 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.

Maybe setting SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH to the same date will work?