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Source: python-quantities
Version: 0.15.0-1
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch
User: [email protected]
Usertags: timestamps
X-Debbugs-Cc: [email protected]
Hi,
Whilst working on the Reproducible Builds effort [0], we noticed that
python-quantities could not be built reproducibly.
This is because the build process writes a timestamp to a generated
file. A patch is attached that sources this timestamp from SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH
instead of the system clock.
[0] https://reproducible-builds.org/
Regards,
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--- a/debian/patches/reproducible-build.patch 1970-01-01 01:00:00.000000000
+0100
--- b/debian/patches/reproducible-build.patch 2024-03-11 15:07:58.203181306
+0000
@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+Description: Make the build reproducible
+Author: Chris Lamb <[email protected]>
+Last-Update: 2024-03-11
+
+--- python-quantities-0.15.0.orig/setup.py
++++ python-quantities-0.15.0/setup.py
+@@ -1,8 +1,14 @@
++import os
++import time
+ from setuptools import Command, setup
+ from setuptools.command.build_py import build_py as _build
+ from setuptools.command.sdist import sdist as _sdist
+-from datetime import datetime
++from datetime import datetime, timezone
+
++build_date = datetime.fromtimestamp(
++ int(os.environ.get('SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH', time.time())),
++ tz=timezone.utc,
++)
+
+ class data(Command):
+
+@@ -24,7 +30,7 @@ class data(Command):
+ with open('quantities/constants/_codata.py', 'w') as f:
+ f.write('# THIS FILE IS AUTOMATICALLY GENERATED\n')
+ f.write('# ANY CHANGES MADE HERE WILL BE LOST\n')
+- f.write(f'# LAST GENERATED: {datetime.now()}\n\n')
++ f.write(f'# LAST GENERATED: {build_date}\n\n')
+ f.write('physical_constants = {}\n\n')
+ for line in data:
+ name = line[:55].rstrip().replace('mag.','magnetic')
--- a/debian/patches/series 1970-01-01 01:00:00.000000000 +0100
--- b/debian/patches/series 2024-03-11 15:05:38.702459132 +0000
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+reproducible-build.patch
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--- Begin Message ---
Source: python-quantities
Source-Version: 0.16.2-1
Done: Yogeswaran Umasankar <[email protected]>
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
python-quantities, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.
A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.
Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you
have further comments please address them to [email protected],
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.
Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Yogeswaran Umasankar <[email protected]> (supplier of updated python-quantities
package)
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Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2025 20:26:29 +0000
Source: python-quantities
Architecture: source
Version: 0.16.2-1
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Debian Science Maintainers
<[email protected]>
Changed-By: Yogeswaran Umasankar <[email protected]>
Closes: 1066042
Changes:
python-quantities (0.16.2-1) unstable; urgency=medium
.
* Team upload.
.
[ Yogeswaran Umasankar ]
* New upstream version 0.16.2.
* d/control:
- Add python3-pytest and python3-setuptools to build-depends.
- Update to dh-sequence-python3.
- Bump Standards-Version to 4.7.2.
- Remove Rules-Requires-Root: no.
* d/rules:
- Remove sequence name python3.
- Remove doc NIST_codata.txt.
* Add d/clean.
* Add d/source/options.
* d/watch: bump to version 5.
.
[ Chris Lamb ]
* Update d/patches/reproducible-build.patch. (Closes: #1066042)
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