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authorAndrew Fuller <afuller@teradici.com>2018-07-20 01:14:40 (GMT)
committerAndrew Fuller <afuller@teradici.com>2018-07-25 20:39:07 (GMT)
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CPack/Deb: Support SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH when packaging files
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-rw-r--r--Help/cpack_gen/deb.rst8
-rw-r--r--Help/release/dev/cpack-deb-source-date-epoch.rst6
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diff --git a/Help/cpack_gen/deb.rst b/Help/cpack_gen/deb.rst
index c5923be..37d750d 100644
--- a/Help/cpack_gen/deb.rst
+++ b/Help/cpack_gen/deb.rst
@@ -527,3 +527,11 @@ alternate data stream (ADT) is used.
When a filesystem without ADT support is used only owner read/write
permissions can be preserved.
+
+Reproducible packages
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+
+The environment variable ``SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH`` may be set to a UNIX
+timestamp, defined as the number of seconds, excluding leap seconds,
+since 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 UTC. If set, the CPack Deb generator will
+use its value for timestamps in the package.
diff --git a/Help/release/dev/cpack-deb-source-date-epoch.rst b/Help/release/dev/cpack-deb-source-date-epoch.rst
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..b276569
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Help/release/dev/cpack-deb-source-date-epoch.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+cpack-deb-source-date-epoch
+---------------------------
+
+* The :cpack_gen:`CPack Deb Generator` learned to honor the ``SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH``
+ environment variable when packaging files. This is useful for generating
+ reproducible packages.