--- /dev/null
+Description: Make the build reproducible
+Author: Chris Lamb <lamby@debian.org>
+Reviewed-By: Laszlo Boszormenyi (GCS) <gcs@debian.org>
+Last-Update: 2018-07-24
+
+--- vips-8.6.4.orig/configure.ac
++++ vips-8.6.4/configure.ac
+@@ -26,7 +26,11 @@ VIPS_MAJOR_VERSION=vips_major_version()
+ VIPS_MINOR_VERSION=vips_minor_version()
+ VIPS_MICRO_VERSION=vips_micro_version()
+ VIPS_VERSION=vips_version()
+-VIPS_VERSION_STRING=$VIPS_VERSION-`date -u -r ChangeLog`
++if test "x$SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH" = "x"; then
++ VIPS_VERSION_STRING=$VIPS_VERSION-`date -u -r ChangeLog`
++else
++ VIPS_VERSION_STRING=$VIPS_VERSION-`LC_ALL=C date --utc --date="@$SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH"`
++fi
+
+ # libtool library versioning ... not user-visible (except as part of the
+ # library file name) and does not correspond to major/minor/micro above