maven generates a pom.properties shipped in jar files containing the build time.

Known affected packages

Detection

Example debbindiff output

Work-around

There is a patch for strip-nondeterminism to delete the line.

Solution

None yet.

This file is written by Maven Archiver, which is used by maven-jar-plugin, maven-war-plugin and similar.

The file can be eliminated in entirety by changing the archiver settings in the appropriate plugin:

  <build>
    <plugins>
      <plugin>
        <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
        <artifactId>maven-jar-plugin</artifactId>
        <version>2.5</version>
        <configuration>
          <archive>
            <addMavenDescriptor>false</addMavenDescriptor>
          </archive>
        </configuration>
      </plugin>
    </plugins>
  </build>

Patch for maven-archiver to honour BUILD_DATE submitted as 775010. Still needs the package to set DEB_BUILD_DATE correctly. Current thoughts: javahelper.