Notes for latex-mk - reproducible builds result

Version annotated: 2.1-2
Identified issues:
Identifier: random_order_of_pdf_ids_generated_by_latex
URL http://tug.org/pipermail/tex-live/2017-June/040398.html
Description latex uses IDs such as dcf70a72907fd3b4786a8ec9b9155636 to identify
elements. Whilst these are deterministic, the ordering they are outputted
are not deterministic.
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This can be disabled by inserting \pdftrailerid{} into the PDF document,
but this should (by default) probably be set to SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH if set.
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(Might be caused by PSOutputDev::setupFonts in embedded poppler PDFDoc.cc)
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(Or http://sources.debian.net/src/texlive-bin/latest/texk/web2c/pdftexdir/pdftex.web/#L20122-L20129)
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(This might be tagged the same as random_id_in_pdf_generated_by_dblatex)
 

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