Dropping compile time from version information to enable a reproducible

build.  Proposed by Jérémy Bobbio and Jordi Mallach.

git-svn-id: svn://svn.savannah.gnu.org/nano/trunk/nano@5136 35c25a1d-7b9e-4130-9fde-d3aeb78583b8

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index d37083967f6b7b2827f4a54e2f065123addcac95..b8ead50483495d3e517b3d0ae789f15b6c9c580d 100644 (file)
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -4,6 +4,9 @@
        * src/rcfile.c (parse_binding): Fix the rebinding of toggles.
        * doc/man/{nano.1,rnano.1,nanorc.5}, doc/texinfo/nano.texi: Update
        years and version numbers in the docs in anticipation of a release.
+       * src/nano.c (version): Drop compile time from version information
+       to enable a reproducible build.  Proposed by Jérémy Bobbio and Jordi
+       Mallach (https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=774388).
 
 2015-03-07  Benno Schulenberg  <bensberg@justemail.net>
        * doc/man/nanorc.5, doc/texinfo/nano.texi: Add a note about the

diff --git a/src/nano.c b/src/nano.c
index b5c8cba784a91d3888b50bc2843b3143e10a6e5e..e1a38b5c464d1a8c6e98308df735687dceb235a7 100644 (file)
--- a/src/nano.c
+++ b/src/nano.c
@@ -960,8 +960,7 @@ void usage(void)
  * it was compiled with. */
 void version(void)
 {
-    printf(_(" GNU nano version %s (compiled %s, %s)\n"), VERSION,
-       __TIME__, __DATE__);
+    printf(_(" GNU nano, version %s\n"), VERSION);
     printf(" (C) 1999..2015 Free Software Foundation, Inc.\n");
     printf(
        _(" Email: nano@nano-editor.org Web: http://www.nano-editor.org/"));