[reprotest] 01/01: doc: mention certificate expiry errors as a potential issue with faketime

[Ximin Luo]

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commit 94e158c52f54b6908e04042c2815ba56e42ad5b9
Author: Ximin Luo <infinity0 at debian.org>
Date:   Fri Nov 3 18:40:04 2017 +0100

    doc: mention certificate expiry errors as a potential issue with faketime
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 README.rst | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst
index 35132f0..e682784 100644
--- a/README.rst
+++ b/README.rst
@@ -325,6 +325,11 @@ hard-to-diagnose problems. In the past, this has included:
   producing different results with and without faketime. This still affects
   bash and probably certain other packages using autotools.
 
+- builds accessing the network failing due to certificate expiration errors
+  and/or other time-related security errors. (Transparent builds of FOSS should
+  not access the network in the first place, but it's outside of reprotest's
+  scope to audit or prevent this.)
+
 If you see a difference that you really think should not be there, try passing
 ``--variations=-time`` to reprotest, and/or check our results on
 https://tests.reproducible-builds.org/ which use a different (more reliable)

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