#28173 - reproducibility: texlive packages contain timestamps

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From: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
To: Danny Milosavljevic <dannym@scratchpost.org>
Subject: Re: bug#28173: texlive-texmf-minimal not reproducible
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Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net> writes:

> texlive-texmf-minimal is no longer needed and should be removed, so I
> think this bug can be closed.

Texlive-texmf-minimal has in fact been removed, but the bug report is
still valid.  Many of the generated files in TeX Live packages contain
timestamps and it is not clear which of them may be removed without
affecting the behaviour of the collection.

I’m retitling this bug.

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Ricardo

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#28173 reproducibility: texlive packages contain timestamps