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Debian Policy encourages to preserve timestamps whenever possible in the tarballs, thus stable release updates of systemd usually do not bump NEWS file timestamp. And thus time-epoch remains the same for the lifetime of a release. It would be better, if each new stable release rebuild of systemd would bump the time epoch a bit. But at the same time remain reproducible. SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH is an environmnet variable defined for this purpose. Thus if available, prefer that, instead of the NEWS file modification time. For example, on Debian/Ubuntu under the reproducible builds the SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH is set to the timestamp from the packaging metadata, thus it is incremented on every new stable release update, whilst preserving reproducible builds capability. Reference: https://reproducible-builds.org/docs/timestamps/
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