-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 Hello Bill:
On 10/04/16 14:52, Bill Allombert wrote: > On Sat, Apr 09, 2016 at 08:46:43PM +0100, Jerome BENOIT wrote: >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >> Hash: SHA256 >> >> or GAP packages whose the documentation format have not been upgraded since >> a while. >> Let be concrete, I have in mind GRAPE [1] whose the documentation is not >> reproducible [2]. > > Yes, but hopefuly, future version of GRAPE will probably move to gapdoc and no > more use convert.pl. hopefully and/or probably, as you said. Meanwhile it is not, and GRAPE is certainly the only one around, without dealing with local material. Note that GRAPE was updated very recently: the probability is high that the upstream maintainer is overwhelmed. > >>> So if the original has 'Februar 2010' as the date, then we should use >>> 'Februar 2010' as the date string. >>> I do not think this is compatible with SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH, unfortunately, >>> because SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH will not be set to the right time. >>> Is there a way around that ? >> >> Yes, set SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH in the d/rules file. >>> >>> I plan to use it that way: >>> GAP_CONVERT_DATE="Februar 2010" /usr/share/gap/etc/convert.pl -c -n AutPGrp >>> . ../htm >>> where 'Februar 2010' is the data found in the original tarball. >> >> SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH=$(date -u -d "1 February 2010" +@%s) [...] >> >> may work. This approach has the advantage to be readable by a larger >> number of Debian maintainer. > > I doubt it. The specification says that > > For packages using dh, debhelper (in our toolchain, see 791823) exports > this variable > during builds, so no changes are needed. > > CDBS (in our toolchain, see 794241) exports this variable during builds, > so no changes > are needed. > > As a last resort to be avoided where possible, package maintainers may set > and export > this variable manually in debian/rules: > > export SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH = $(shell date -d "$$(dpkg-parsechangelog > -SDate)" +%s) > > so to me using SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH and setting it to "1 February 2010" > would cause more confusion. > > (Also it is more fragile, your function 'sub reprodate' would need to set > LANG=C ) (How come ?) ((Is it an habit of yours to personalized issues ?)) > > Think of GAP_CONVERT_DATE as a parameter given to convert.pl and not as > an environment variable. Why not think SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH as a parameter given to dh `as last resort' ? The pleasure to add an undocumented and obscure environment variable ? Best wishes, Jerome > > Cheers, > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQEcBAEBCAAGBQJXCo5lAAoJEIC/w4IMSybjwvcH/2zIzI3IA8b7VFn1kTnSZWsr znu/kfjrahGFpASiEZnXV7R3IdYLDliYHH/pJy4yzGc1/OnMal/lB81O9MuYcLtW vBsjb5r78YwNPIQbxYflP9CkyVNMz9d5pXyYeWZpvS/X0ye7JjbP5MrcrWcus4Tu APC56VuSEkv+H4EABS133XupqV4eVCn4XIN4Ld/jUMxUfyjVxrgspDodrPtsQkA+ FlcTWCigINWedoj1kzaU5WVMATqohR7TuONp2z6pElNqNDzBeDwHddY+1In6J8Ux vzvaTFBwmH0/bRGZBs29FcXs5JnGnRQOAjqN1CXHeRjqzBXhWZ4xomYw+XZ7xQA= =yfvJ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
