Notes for scons - reproducible builds result

Version annotated: 3.1.2+dfsg-0.1
Identified issues:
Identifier: timestamps_in_manpages_generated_by_docbook_xsl
URL https://bugs.debian.org/791815
Description docbook-xsl writes the build date into the header; sometimes driven by asciidoc, sometimes by xsltproc.
Date change visible on Jenkins due to timezone changes.
Identifier: timestamps_in_pdf_generated_by_apache_fop
URL https://wiki.debian.org/ReproducibleBuilds/TimestampsInPDFGeneratedByApacheFOP
Description PDF files generated with Apache FOP will contain CreationDate and
ModDate set to the current date and time.
Partial fix applied https://bugs.debian.org/978499
Further patch submitted https://bugs.debian.org/983588
Comments: Has an embedded copy of docbook-xsl.
 

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