Source: gmap
Version: 2020-04-08+ds1-2
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch
User: reproducible-bui...@lists.alioth.debian.org
Usertags: environment randomness
X-Debbugs-Cc: reproducible-b...@lists.alioth.debian.org
Hi,
Whilst working on the Reproducible Builds effort [0] we noticed that
gmap could not be built reproducibly.
This is because the tests.tar.xz file contained some non-deterministic
or generated data:
│ │ │ │ │ ├── file list
│ │ │ │ │ │ @@ -1,12 +1,12 @@
│ │ │ │ │ │ drwxr-xr-x 0 0 0 0 2020-04-18
18:38:39.000000 tests/
│ │ │ │ │ │ --rw-r--r-- 0 0 0 29029 2020-04-18
18:38:39.000000 tests/Makefile
│ │ │ │ │ │ +-rw-r--r-- 0 0 0 29047 2020-04-18
18:38:39.000000 tests/Makefile
│ │ │ │ │ │ -rw-r--r-- 0 0 0 1319 2020-04-18
18:38:39.000000 tests/Makefile.am
│ │ │ │ │ │ -rw-r--r-- 0 0 0 29193 2020-04-18
18:38:39.000000 tests/Makefile.in
│ │ │ │ │ │ --rw-r--r-- 0 0 0 560 2020-04-18
18:38:39.000000 tests/align.log
│ │ │ │ │ │ +-rw-r--r-- 0 0 0 559 2020-04-18
18:38:39.000000 tests/align.log
│ │ │ │ │ │ -rwxr-xr-x 0 0 0 206 2020-04-18
18:38:39.000000 tests/align.test
│ │ │ │ │ │ -rw-r--r-- 0 0 0 206 2020-04-18
18:38:39.000000 tests/align.test.in
Patch attached that does not ship these generated files (plus Makefile.in).
[0] https://reproducible-builds.org/
Regards,
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--- a/debian/rules 2020-07-13 12:18:16.221932141 +0100
--- b/debian/rules 2020-07-13 12:30:05.471655529 +0100
@@ -50,4 +50,7 @@
--mtime="@${SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH}" \
--owner=root --group=root --numeric-owner \
--mode=go=rX,u+rw,a-s \
+ --exclude='*/align.log' \
+ --exclude='*/Makefile' \
+ --exclude='*/Makefile.in' \
-cJf
$(CURDIR)/debian/$(DEB_SOURCE)/usr/share/doc/$(DEB_SOURCE)/examples/tests.tar.xz
tests
