Package: txt2man Version: 1.5.5-2 Severity: normal Tags: patch User: reproducible-bui...@lists.alioth.debian.org Usertags: timestamps
txt2man embeds a timestamp in its own manuals which is, by default, the current date. This makes builds deterministic. The attached patch parses debian/changelog to find the date of the current package version and passes that to the call to txt2man instead. For hopefully obvious reasons this is not suitable for inclusion upstream since it relies on dpkg-parsechangelog. -- System Information: Debian Release: 8.0 APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'testing-proposed-updates'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_GB.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
Subject: reproducible builds Use the date of the latest entry in debian/changelog for the date headers in man pages, so that builds are reproducible. Author: Jonathan Wiltshire <j...@debian.org> Forwarded: not-needed Last-Update: 2015-04-12 --- txt2man-1.5.6.orig/Makefile +++ txt2man-1.5.6/Makefile @@ -1,6 +1,7 @@ # Makefile prefix ?= $(DESTDIR)/usr version = txt2man-1.5.6 +date = $(shell dpkg-parsechangelog -c1 -S date | date +"%b %d %Y" -f -) BIN = src2man bookman txt2man MAN1 = src2man.1 txt2man.1 bookman.1 @@ -14,7 +15,7 @@ clean: rm -f *.1 *.txt *.ps *.pdf *.html -%.1:%.txt; ./txt2man -s 1 -t $* -r $(version) $< > $@ +%.1:%.txt; ./txt2man -s 1 -t $* -r $(version) -d "$(date)" $< > $@ %.txt:%; ./$< -h 2>&1 > $@ %.html:%.1; rman -f HTML $< > $@ %.ps:%.1; groff -man $< > $@
