With an explicit date, they will get the current date and make build
unreproducible
Gbp-Pq: Name 0004-Make-gemspecs-reproducible.patch
s.name = "bigdecimal"
s.version = bigdecimal_version
s.authors = ["Kenta Murata", "Zachary Scott", "Shigeo Kobayashi"]
+ s.date = RUBY_RELEASE_DATE
s.email = ["mrkn@mrkn.jp"]
s.summary = "Arbitrary-precision decimal floating-point number library."
Gem::Specification.new do |s|
s.name = "io-console"
s.version = _VERSION
- s.date = date
+ s.date = RUBY_RELEASE_DATE
s.summary = "Console interface"
s.email = "nobu@ruby-lang.org"
s.description = "add console capabilities to IO instances."
Gem::Specification.new do |s|
s.name = "rdoc"
+ s.date = RUBY_RELEASE_DATE
s.version = RDoc::VERSION
s.date = "2017-12-24"