Re: Automake 1.18 regression (?)

On 6/22/25 17:12, Karl Berry wrote:
> [...]
>
> In other words, you've forced the texi file to be considered to have the
> same mtime as the spec file, and that might well be newer than the
> previously-generated (years and years ago) info files.
>
> I don't know if that's what's really happening. Can you investigate
> please? And if it is, I don't know what to do about it :(.
> Maybe making mdate-sh aware of SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH was a wrong idea :(.

Could the right answer be to limit the effect of SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH to 
timestamps that will appear in built files?


-- Jacob