On Sun, Sep 21, 2014 at 10:45:14PM +0200, Jérémy Bobbio wrote: > As part of the “reproducible builds” effort [1], it was detected that > libgpg-error could not be built reproducibly. > > The build process capture the time of the build. This piece of > information is not really helpful to anyone and prevents the build > process from being deterministic. > > The attached patch will instead use the time of the latest > debian/changelog entry. Once applied, libgpg-error can be built > reproducibly! :)
Wouldn't it be better to patch configure.ac in a way useful to upstream; for example by having it use the time from an exported environment variable? Otherwise the package is going to have to carry around a Debian-specific patch forever. Cheers, Dominic. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
