On 2024-03-18, Chris Lamb wrote:
> Whilst working on the Reproducible Builds effort [0], we noticed that
> mpl-sphinx-theme could not be built reproducibly.
>
> This is because it embedded the build date in the documentation:
...
> --- a/debian/patches/reproducible-build.patch 1970-01-01 01:00:00.000000000
> +0100
> --- b/debian/patches/reproducible-build.patch 2024-03-18 12:59:19.650123651
> +0000
> @@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
> +Description: Make the build reproducible
> +Author: Chris Lamb <la...@debian.org>
> +Last-Update: 2024-03-18
> +
> +--- mpl-sphinx-theme-3.5.0.orig/docs/conf.py
> ++++ mpl-sphinx-theme-3.5.0/docs/conf.py
> +@@ -1,5 +1,12 @@
> ++import os
> ++import time
> + import datetime
> +
> ++build_date = datetime.datetime.fromtimestamp(
> ++ int(os.environ.get('SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH', time.time())),
> ++ tz=datetime.timezone.utc,
> ++)
> ++
> + # Configuration file for the Sphinx documentation builder for
> + # matplotlib projects.
> +
> +@@ -10,7 +17,7 @@ is_release_build = tags.has('release')
> +
> + project = "Matplotlib Sphinx Theme"
> + copyright = (
> +- f"2012 - {datetime.datetime.now().year} The Matplotlib development team"
> ++ f"2012 - {build_date.year} The Matplotlib development team"
> + )
> + author = "Matplotlib Developers"
> +
> --- a/debian/patches/series 1970-01-01 01:00:00.000000000 +0100
> --- b/debian/patches/series 2024-03-18 12:59:16.218124536 +0000
> @@ -0,0 +1 @@
> +reproducible-build.patchFWIW, I uploaded an NMU fixing this based on your earlier patch, but it was reverted when the maintainer attempted to orphan the package without incorporating the NMU... https://bugs.debian.org/1005826 https://bugs.debian.org/1065042 live well, vagrant
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