Copyright year is updated on build
Description of problem:
Copyright year is updated on build (in configure)
Version of gnutls used:
3.6.13
Distributor of gnutls (e.g., Ubuntu, Fedora, RHEL)
openSUSE
How reproducible:
Always
Steps to Reproduce:
- build gnutls from scratch in current year and a later year (can use
qemu -rtc base=) - compare binaries
Actual results:
building today's version in 2025 produces
Copyright (C) 2000-2025 Free Software Foundation, and others
and differs from a binary built today.
Expected results:
Software builds should be reproducible. See https://reproducible-builds.org/ for why this matters.
!928 (comment 145264928) seems to be the preferred approach.
!1058 (closed) was considered to add too much work at max 1 commit/year