Source: xz-utils Version: 5.1.1alpha+20120614-2.1 Severity: wishlist User: reproducible-bui...@lists.alioth.debian.org Usertags: timestamps X-Debbugs-Cc: reproducible-bui...@lists.alioth.debian.org, sanv...@debian.org
Hi! While working on the “reproducible builds” effort [1], we have noticed that xz-utils could not be built reproducibly. One of the problem is that the Gettext files always contain a different value for POT-Creation-Date. That's because the template for translations, xz.pot, is currently not shipped as part of the source. So xgettext will be run everytime, resulting in a new POT-Creation-Date and this slight loss of information. This is not considered a good practice, as Santiago Vila has explained in another bug report [2]. Upstream do ship xz.pot in its release tarballs. They also reference the file to potential translators in README. So it would probably be better to ship the file in Debian source. Thanks! [1]: https://wiki.debian.org/ReproducibleBuilds [2]: https://bugs.debian.org/792687#15 -- Lunar .''`. lu...@debian.org : :Ⓐ : # apt-get install anarchism `. `'` `-
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