Source: xtermcontrol
Version: 3.8-3
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
xtermcontrol could not be built reproducibly.
This is because it uses a custom set of date macros in acinclude.m4.
Patch attached that overrides the values in debian/rules, basing
them off SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH.
[0] https://reproducible-builds.org/
Regards,
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--- a/debian/rules 2021-09-24 09:20:53.800313098 +0100
--- b/debian/rules 2021-09-24 09:35:32.356026521 +0100
@@ -5,9 +5,15 @@
export DEB_BUILD_MAINT_OPTIONS=hardening=+all
+PACKAGE_YEAR = $(shell date --utc --date=@$(SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH) '+%Y')
+PACKAGE_DATE = $(shell date --utc --date=@$(SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH) +'%B %d, %Y')
+
%:
dh $@
+override_dh_auto_build:
+ dh_auto_build -- PACKAGE_YEAR="$(PACKAGE_YEAR)"
PACKAGE_DATE="$(PACKAGE_DATE)"
+
override_dh_auto_test:
ifeq (,$(filter nocheck,$(DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS)))
xvfb-run xterm -e '( dh_auto_test ; echo $$? ) | tee
debian/xterm_dh_auto_test.log'
