Source: datalad
Version: 0.16.1-1
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch
User: reproducible-bui...@lists.alioth.debian.org
Usertags: timestamps
X-Debbugs-Cc: reproducible-b...@lists.alioth.debian.org
Hi,
Whilst working on the Reproducible Builds effort [0] we noticed that
datalad could not be built reproducibly.
This is because the generated manpages include the current build date.
A patch is attached that uses SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH if it is available.
[0] https://reproducible-builds.org/
Regards,
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--- a/debian/patches/reproducible-build.patch 1969-12-31 16:00:00.000000000
-0800
--- b/debian/patches/reproducible-build.patch 2022-04-28 11:45:44.965548810
-0700
@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+Description: Make the build reproducible
+Author: Chris Lamb <la...@debian.org>
+Last-Update: 2022-04-28
+
+--- datalad-0.16.1.orig/_datalad_build_support/formatters.py
++++ datalad-0.16.1/_datalad_build_support/formatters.py
+@@ -7,7 +7,9 @@
+
+ import argparse
+ import datetime
++import os
+ import re
++import time
+ from textwrap import wrap
+
+
+@@ -34,7 +36,9 @@ class ManPageFormatter(argparse.HelpForm
+
+ self._prog = prog
+ self._section = 1
+- self._today = datetime.date.today().strftime('%Y\\-%m\\-%d')
++ self._today = datetime.datetime.utcfromtimestamp(
++ int(os.environ.get('SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH', time.time()))
++ ).strftime('%Y\\-%m\\-%d')
+ self._ext_sections = ext_sections
+ self._version = version
+
--- a/debian/patches/series 2022-04-28 11:05:26.121641535 -0700
--- b/debian/patches/series 2022-04-28 11:45:43.945545461 -0700
@@ -2,3 +2,4 @@
deb_setup_no_msgpack_and_duecredit
deb_no_utf8
python3.patch
+reproducible-build.patch
