meaning of "Automatic date update in version.in" commits

[Andreas Schwab]

On Sep 20 2017, Petr Ovtchenkov <ptr@void-ptr.info> wrote:

> What is the meaning of "Automatic date update in version.in" commits?
> I mean commits like f625a739e5.

It is used to name the shared libbfd and libopcodes, since there is no
stable ABI.

> This commits litter commits tree and create problems for  	
> deterministic, bit-identical and/or verifiable builds.

Why is that a problem?  The version is fixed for a particular source
snapshot.

Andreas.

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