Hi,

Whilst working on the Reproducible Builds effort [0], we noticed that
python-discovery could not be built reproducibly.

This is because the documentation embeds the current time and date.
This is not usually an issue with Sphinx, but AIUI, Sphinx will not
do SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH timestamp magic when the format is .isoformat()

Patch attached that simply drops the "Last updated" line, which is
not so useful in a Debian binary package context.

 [0] https://reproducible-builds.org/


Regards,

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
python-discovery, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.

A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 1130623@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Stefano Rivera <stefanor@debian.org> (supplier of updated python-discovery package)

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Format: 1.8
Date: Sun, 24 May 2026 17:41:00 -0400
Source: python-discovery
Architecture: source
Version: 1.3.1-1
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Debian Python Team <team+python@tracker.debian.org>
Changed-By: Stefano Rivera <stefanor@debian.org>
Closes: 1130623
Changes:
 python-discovery (1.3.1-1) unstable; urgency=medium
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   * New upstream release.
   * Build-Depend on python3-sphinxcontrib-towncrier for docs.
   * Patch: Make the docs build reproducible. (Closes: #1130623)
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