#1065448 libreoffice-common: soffice builds of pdf files are unreproducible

Package:
libreoffice-common
Source:
libreoffice-common
Submitter:
Peter Blackman
Date:
2026-05-14 07:09:01 UTC
Severity:
normal
Tags:
#1065448#5
Date:
2024-03-04 20:58:35 UTC
From:
To:
Dear Maintainer,

When creating pdf files from odt files, soffice writes a CreationDate field
which contains the actual build date/time. This varies with every build.
For an example, see the bottom of
https://tests.reproducible-builds.org/debian/rb-pkg/trixie/amd64/diffoscope-results/winff.html

soffice could use the creation date of the input odt file,
or even SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH instead of the current system date.

Regards,
Peter
#1065448#10
Date:
2024-03-04 21:09:21 UTC
From:
To:
forwarded 1065448 https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=160033

thanks


Hi,

Am 04.03.24 um 21:58 schrieb Rene Engelhard:
text for no reason :)


Did now: https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=160033
I think there wven was an option to actually not export this at all (or
I misremember) but it's probably not exposed to --convert-to etc. unless
extra configuration.


Anyway, forwarded.


Regards,


Rene
#1065448#15
Date:
2024-03-04 21:09:21 UTC
From:
To:
forwarded 1065448 https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=160033

thanks


Hi,

Am 04.03.24 um 21:58 schrieb Rene Engelhard:
text for no reason :)


Did now: https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=160033
I think there wven was an option to actually not export this at all (or
I misremember) but it's probably not exposed to --convert-to etc. unless
extra configuration.


Anyway, forwarded.


Regards,


Rene
#1065448#20
Date:
2024-04-17 11:53:46 UTC
From:
To:
Dear submitter,

as the package libreoffice has just been removed from the Debian archive
experimental we hereby close the associated bug reports.  We are sorry
that we couldn't deal with your issue properly.

For details on the removal, please see https://bugs.debian.org/1069123

The version of this package that was in Debian prior to this removal
can still be found using https://snapshot.debian.org/.

Please note that the changes have been done on the master archive and
will not propagate to any mirrors until the next dinstall run at the
earliest.

This message was generated automatically; if you believe that there is
a problem with it please contact the archive administrators by mailing
ftpmaster@ftp-master.debian.org.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Scott Kitterman (the ftpmaster behind the curtain)
#1065448#29
Date:
2025-08-07 22:12:16 UTC
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