Source: hspell
Version: 1.2-2.1
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch
User: reproducible-bui...@lists.alioth.debian.org
Usertags: timestamps
X-Debbugs-Cc: reproducible-bui...@lists.alioth.debian.org

Hi!

While working on the "reproducible builds" effort [1], we have noticed
that hspell could not be built reproducibly.
The current date is embedded into aff files generated by mk_he_affix.

The attached patch removes those timestamps as they provides no
useful information.

Regards,
 Reiner

[1]: https://wiki.debian.org/ReproducibleBuilds

diff --git a/debian/patches/reproducible_build.patch b/debian/patches/reproducible_build.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..238a36d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/debian/patches/reproducible_build.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+Index: hspell-1.2/mk_he_affix.c
+===================================================================
+--- hspell-1.2.orig/mk_he_affix.c
++++ hspell-1.2/mk_he_affix.c
+@@ -90,9 +90,7 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[])
+   fprintf(afffp, "# This file was generated automatically from data prepared\n"
+                  "# by the Hspell project (http://hspell.ivrix.org.il/).\n"
+                  "# Hspell version %d.%d%s was used.\n"
+-                 "# The conversion was carried out in %s\n",
+-                 HSPELL_VERSION_MAJOR,HSPELL_VERSION_MINOR,HSPELL_VERSION_EXTRA,
+-                 __DATE__);
++                 HSPELL_VERSION_MAJOR,HSPELL_VERSION_MINOR,HSPELL_VERSION_EXTRA);
+   fprintf(afffp, "# Copyright 2004-2012, Nadav Har'El and Dan Kenigsberg\n");
+   fprintf(afffp, "# The dictionary (this file and the corresponding word list)\n"
+                  "# is licensed under the GNU Affero General Public License\n"
diff --git a/debian/patches/series b/debian/patches/series
index 8c3ffbe..c454eeb 100644
--- a/debian/patches/series
+++ b/debian/patches/series
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
 manpages_minus.patch
 make-install.patch
 whatsnew-utf8.patch
+reproducible_build.patch

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