Lots of progress for Debian's reproducible builds

Re:Lots of progress for Debian's reproducible builds by dochtman on Tuesday January 27, 2015 @07:00AM (#8952594)

Thanks for your work!

I've been wondering -- why do compiled binaries actually include timestamps? For human-readable stuff, I sort of understand, but for binaries I don't see we'd want to include timestamps.

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Re:Lots of progress for Debian's reproducible builds by revelation on Tuesday January 27, 2015 @08:19AM (#8952847)

I guess it's related to debugging purposes. If you know when a binary was built, you know that a source file X with a changetime later than the build is different to the source file used for building the binary.

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