Hi all,
as you probably know, if tdelibs are compiled with elf editor support
(WITH_ELFICON), the application icon, TDE information and git repository
information are embedded into libraries and binaries during CMake build.
This data, on the one hand, provides user convenience - better to see the
application icon than the general binaries icon. On the other hand, they
provide information to developers - for example, when reporting creashes.
It is possible that you have also heard about the activity Reproducible
builds, which seems to us as a very good idea. See:
https://reproducible-builds.org/
https://wiki.debian.org/ReproducibleBuilds
Currently, the metadata that are embedded has a Compilation Date/Time
entry. This is set to the current date and time at the time of building
the binary package. And this is a problem because it makes it impossible
to achieve reproducible builds.
My suggestion is that next to the ".tdescmmodule" and ".tdescmrevision"
files we could have a ".tdescmdatetime" file containing the git commit
date and/or a ".tdepackagedatetime" file containing the date the source
package was created for distribution. For embedded metadata, this fixed
time would be used instead of variable time.
What is your opinion?
Cheers
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Sl�vek
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