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<a href="https://gitlab.com/bmwiedemann1">Bernhard M. Wiedemann</a> created an issue:
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<a id="user-content-description-of-problem" class="anchor" href="#description-of-problem" aria-hidden="true"></a>Description of problem:</h2>
<p dir="auto">Copyright year is updated on build (in configure)</p>
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<a id="user-content-version-of-gnutls-used" class="anchor" href="#version-of-gnutls-used" aria-hidden="true"></a>Version of gnutls used:</h2>
<p dir="auto">3.6.13</p>
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<a id="user-content-distributor-of-gnutls-eg-ubuntu-fedora-rhel" class="anchor" href="#distributor-of-gnutls-eg-ubuntu-fedora-rhel" aria-hidden="true"></a>Distributor of gnutls (e.g., Ubuntu, Fedora, RHEL)</h2>
<p dir="auto">openSUSE</p>
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<a id="user-content-how-reproducible" class="anchor" href="#how-reproducible" aria-hidden="true"></a>How reproducible:</h2>
<p dir="auto">Always</p>
<p dir="auto">Steps to Reproduce:</p>
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<li>build gnutls from scratch in current year and a later year (can use <code>qemu -rtc base=</code>)</li>
<li>compare binaries</li>
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<a id="user-content-actual-results" class="anchor" href="#actual-results" aria-hidden="true"></a>Actual results:</h2>
<p dir="auto">building today's version in 2025 produces
<code>Copyright (C) 2000-2025 Free Software Foundation, and others</code>
and differs from a binary built today.</p>
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<a id="user-content-expected-results" class="anchor" href="#expected-results" aria-hidden="true"></a>Expected results:</h2>
<p dir="auto">Software builds should be reproducible. See <a href="https://reproducible-builds.org/" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">https://reproducible-builds.org/</a> for why this matters.</p>
<p dir="auto"><a href="https://gitlab.com/gnutls/gnutls/-/merge_requests/928#note_145264928" data-original="https://gitlab.com/gnutls/gnutls/-/merge_requests/928#note_145264928" data-link="false" data-link-reference="true" data-project="179611" data-merge-request="24262062" data-project-path="gnutls/gnutls" data-iid="928" data-mr-title="WIP: Use git commit or ChangeLog date instead of build date" data-reference-type="merge_request" data-container="body" data-placement="top" data-html="true" title="" class="gfm gfm-merge_request">!928 (comment 145264928)</a> seems to be the preferred approach.</p>
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