Source: zeal
Version: 1:0.6.1+git20220714+6fee23-1
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
zeal could not be built reproducibly.
This is because it adds a "development release" date to an XML file:
│ │ │ │ ├── ./usr/share/metainfo/org.zealdocs.zeal.appdata.xml
│ │ │ │ │ @@ -23,15 +23,15 @@
│ │ │ │ │ <image>https://i.imgur.com/qBkZduS.png</image>
│ │ │ │ │ </screenshot>
│ │ │ │ │ </screenshots>
│ │ │ │ │ <provides>
│ │ │ │ │ <id>zeal.desktop</id>
│ │ │ │ │ </provides>
│ │ │ │ │ <releases>
│ │ │ │ │ - <release date="2022-07-15" version="0.6.2-dev"
type="development"/>
│ │ │ │ │ + <release date="2022-07-16" version="0.6.2-dev"
type="development"/>
Patch attached that simply drops this line.
[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 2022-07-18 11:47:48.221289879
+0100
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+Description: Make the build reproducible
+Author: Chris Lamb <la...@debian.org>
+Last-Update: 2022-07-18
+
+--- zeal-0.6.1+git20220714+6fee23.orig/CMakeLists.txt
++++ zeal-0.6.1+git20220714+6fee23/CMakeLists.txt
+@@ -44,11 +44,6 @@ endif()
+
+ set(ZEAL_VERSION_FULL "${Zeal_VERSION}${ZEAL_VERSION_SUFFIX}")
+
+-# For development builds insert an extra release in the AppStream metadata.
+-if(NOT RELEASE_VERSION)
+- string(TIMESTAMP ZEAL_APPSTREAM_DEV_RELEASE "\n <release
date=\"%Y-%m-%d\" version=\"${ZEAL_VERSION_FULL}\" type=\"development\" />")
+-endif()
+-
+ # A custom target to print the full version.
+ # Usage: cmake --build build --target zeal_version
+ add_custom_target(zeal_version
--- a/debian/patches/series 2022-07-18 11:36:13.167186089 +0100
--- b/debian/patches/series 2022-07-18 11:47:47.389286997 +0100
@@ -1,2 +1,3 @@
disable-check-for-update.patch
#system-cpp-httplib.patch # only needed with the next upstream release
+reproducible-build.patch
