From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2017 05:12:13 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] Documentation: allow overriding timestamps of generated asciidoc
Message-ID: <20171122051213.GB7625@aiede.mtv.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.10.1711212317440.27951@mass-toolpike.mit.edu>

Anders Kaseorg wrote:
> On Tue, 21 Nov 2017, Jonathan Nieder wrote:

>> http://asciidoc.org/CHANGELOG.html is stale but asciidoc still seems
>> to be getting changes at https://github.com/asciidoc/asciidoc.  I
>> wonder how difficult it would be to add any required SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH
>> support there.
>
> In fact I already did (https://github.com/asciidoc/asciidoc/pull/106),
> which is why I’d been holding off on trying to upstream this Git patch.
> The trouble was, the AsciiDoc developers had not been cutting new releases
> “because nobody knows how”
> (https://github.com/asciidoc/asciidoc/issues/103#issuecomment-322077321).
> However, it looks like AsciiDoc 8.6.10 was recently tagged and Debian got
> a 8.6.10-1 package yesterday, so I guess that trouble has been quietly
> resolved.

Ah, lovely.  I'll add a build-time dependency on that version to the
Debian package.

Junio, please disregard this patch (patch 1/3).

Thanks,
Jonathan