On 2026-09-23, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: > On 2026-01-21, Chris Lamb wrote: >> Whilst working on the Reproducible Builds effort [0], we noticed that >> argparse-manpage generates nondeterministic manpages. >> >> This appears to be a regression from version 4.5 which correctly used >> utcfromtimestamp to parse SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH to a Python datetime >> object. However, 4.7 uses fromtimestamp (cf. "utcfromtimestamp"), so >> the generated manual pages differ depending on the surrounding timezone. >> >> This is affecting at least the src:psutils and src:virtme-ng packages, >> but there are likely more. ... > I would like to perform a Non-Maintainer Upload (NMU) applying this > patch in the next week or two.
I have uploaded an NMU to DELAYED/10, debdiff attached. A merge request with the NMU updates also submitted at: https://salsa.debian.org/freeipa-team/argparse-manpage/-/merge_requests/2 live well, vagrant
diff -Nru argparse-manpage-4.7/debian/changelog argparse-manpage-4.7/debian/changelog --- argparse-manpage-4.7/debian/changelog 2026-01-20 07:13:58.000000000 -0800 +++ argparse-manpage-4.7/debian/changelog 2026-10-14 11:46:01.000000000 -0700 @@ -1,3 +1,12 @@ +argparse-manpage (4.7-1.1) unstable; urgency=medium + + * Non-maintainer upload. + + [ Chris Lamb ] + * debian/patches: Use UTC timestamps. (Closes: #1126092) + + -- Vagrant Cascadian <[email protected]> Wed, 14 Oct 2026 11:46:01 -0700 + argparse-manpage (4.7-1) unstable; urgency=medium * New upstream release. (Closes: #1125994) diff -Nru argparse-manpage-4.7/debian/patches/0001-argparse_manpage-compat.py-Use-utcfromtimestamp-for-.patch argparse-manpage-4.7/debian/patches/0001-argparse_manpage-compat.py-Use-utcfromtimestamp-for-.patch --- argparse-manpage-4.7/debian/patches/0001-argparse_manpage-compat.py-Use-utcfromtimestamp-for-.patch 1969-12-31 16:00:00.000000000 -0800 +++ argparse-manpage-4.7/debian/patches/0001-argparse_manpage-compat.py-Use-utcfromtimestamp-for-.patch 2026-10-14 11:41:54.000000000 -0700 @@ -0,0 +1,31 @@ +From d2960777d40d282644f6238a0d74059fe56fcf79 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 +From: Chris Lamb <[email protected]> +Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2026 10:54:44 -0800 +Subject: [PATCH] argparse_manpage/compat.py: Use utcfromtimestamp for + consistent dates. (Closes: #1126092) + +This appears to be a regression from version 4.5 which correctly used +utcfromtimestamp to parse SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH to a Python datetime +object. However, 4.7 uses fromtimestamp (cf. "utcfromtimestamp"), so +the generated manual pages differ depending on the surrounding timezone. + +https://reproducible-builds.org/docs/timezones/ +--- + argparse_manpage/compat.py | 2 +- + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) + +diff --git a/argparse_manpage/compat.py b/argparse_manpage/compat.py +index 7567b7e..752f3d3 100644 +--- a/argparse_manpage/compat.py ++++ b/argparse_manpage/compat.py +@@ -63,6 +63,6 @@ def get_reproducible_date(): + Return current datetime string, but respect SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH environment + variable if specified. + """ +- return datetime.datetime.fromtimestamp( ++ return datetime.datetime.utcfromtimestamp( + int(os.environ.get('SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH', time.time())), + *_TZ_ARGS).strftime('%Y-%m-%d') +-- +2.47.3 + diff -Nru argparse-manpage-4.7/debian/patches/series argparse-manpage-4.7/debian/patches/series --- argparse-manpage-4.7/debian/patches/series 1969-12-31 16:00:00.000000000 -0800 +++ argparse-manpage-4.7/debian/patches/series 2026-10-14 11:42:07.000000000 -0700 @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +0001-argparse_manpage-compat.py-Use-utcfromtimestamp-for-.patch
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