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Bug#990999: biber: reproducible builds: timezone-specific timestamps in PDF



On 2021-09-01, Hilmar Preuße wrote:
> Am 12.07.2021 um 18:02 teilte Vagrant Cascadian mit:
>> The attached patches fix this by calling lualatex with the --utc
>> argument in debian/rules and by patching biber.tex to not include a
>> document ID.
>> 
>> With these patches applied, biber should become reproducible on the
>> tests.reproducible-builds.org infrastructure.
>> 
> Thanks for the patches. Did you consider to offer the first patch to 
> biber upstream?


doc/biber.tex: Do not generate document ID.

I could submit it upstream, if you'd like.

Since I'm not familiar with the biber package, I do like to solicit
input from the maintainers of the Debian packages as they often have a
working relationship with upstream.


> The second patch I've committed to your git repo.

Thanks!

For the record, looks like it was commit:

  https://github.com/debian-tex/biber/commit/bcae25a0592b69650389e46a1910252160745c9d


live well,
  vagrant

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