Hi,

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

This is because the LaTeX-based documentation includes the current
build date. This can be specified to use SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH through the
LaTeX-specific FORCE_SOURCE_DATE environment variable.

Adding

export FORCE_SOURCE_DATE=1

at the top of debian/rules makes the package reproducible

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

Cheers Jochen

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
latex-coffee-stains, 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 1140365@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Barak A. Pearlmutter <bap@debian.org> (supplier of updated latex-coffee-stains package)

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Format: 1.8
Date: Sat, 20 Jun 2026 15:29:20 +0100
Source: latex-coffee-stains
Architecture: source
Version: 7-4
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Barak A. Pearlmutter <bap@debian.org>
Changed-By: Barak A. Pearlmutter <bap@debian.org>
Closes: 1140365
Changes:
 latex-coffee-stains (7-4) unstable; urgency=medium
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   * Bump policy
   * Force source date for reproducible build (closes: #1140365)
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