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File WindowMaker-0.95.8-reproducible.patch of Package WindowMaker (Revision c29efeba23590bc77f35bbaf71aad687)

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could be upstreamed, but upstream seems dead
with lists.windowmaker.org down and the last git commit is from March

commit e9ab99877b71669a75c1c1a43c1fb24cb32c1bdf
Author: Bernhard M. Wiedemann <bwiedemann@suse.de>
Date:   Tue Dec 19 21:13:21 2017 +0100

texi2txt: Use ChangeLog date instead of build date
    
    in order to make builds reproducible.
    See https://reproducible-builds.org/ for why this is good.
    
    This date call works with GNU date and BSD date.
    
    Without this patch, /usr/share/doc/packages/WindowMaker/README.i18n
    will differ in the line
      Published by The Window Maker team on ...
    
    ---
    An alternative solution could use the $SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH variable
    defined in https://reproducible-builds.org/specs/source-date-epoch/

diff --git a/script/generate-txt-from-texi.sh b/script/generate-txt-from-texi.sh
index 3800c72c..ee4e8603 100755
--- a/script/generate-txt-from-texi.sh
+++ b/script/generate-txt-from-texi.sh
@@ -822,7 +822,7 @@ function execute_commands(line,               replaced_line, command) {
     } else if (command == "today") {
       # Make sure the date will be in english (we use "C" because it not certain
       # that the English locale is enabled on the machine of the user)
-      replaced_line = replaced_line "'"`LANG=C date '+%d %B %Y' | sed -e 's,^0,,' `"'";
+      replaced_line = replaced_line "'"`LANG=C date -u -r ../../ChangeLog '+%d %B %Y' | sed -e 's,^0,,' `"'";
 
     # Commands to display text in a special style ##############################
     } else if (command == "asis") {

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