Make the output reproducible

[lamby]

Whilst working on the Reproducible Builds effort I noticed that sphinx-panels does not create reproducible output.

This is because it uses Python's uuid.uuid4 to generate unique identifiers, but those numbers are random/nondeterminstic by design. This patch will seed these random numbers from SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH if it exists, otherwise it will revert back to random numbers.

(I originally filed this in Debian as bug #1017475.)

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[chrisjsewell]

Heya, I'm afraid sphinx-panels is now deprecated for sphinx-design: https://sphinx-design.readthedocs.io/en/furo-theme/get_started.html#migrating-from-sphinx-panels Your welcome to check out that package, and see if the same can be applied

[sandrotosi]

Heya, I'm afraid sphinx-panels is now deprecated for sphinx-design: https://sphinx-design.readthedocs.io/en/furo-theme/get_started.html#migrating-from-sphinx-panels Your welcome to check out that package, and see if the same can be applied

thanks! in debian we have a handful of packages using sphinx-panels, with the 2 most prominent being matplotlib and scipy; are you aware of any plans from those projects to migrate / were they told to migrate over to sphinx-design? thanks!

[lamby]

Sure thing. Have also filed this over in sphinx-design: https://github.com/executablebooks/sphinx-design/pull/90