Source: strace
Version: 4.21-1
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch
User: reproducible-bui...@lists.alioth.debian.org
Usertags: timestamps
X-Debbugs-Cc: reproducible-b...@lists.alioth.debian.org
Hi,
Whilst working on the Reproducible Builds effort [0], we noticed
that strace could not be built reproducibly as it encodes a
timezone-varying date in the manpage.
Patch attached that uses SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH [1].
[0] https://reproducible-builds.org/
[1] https://reproducible-builds.org/specs/source-date-epoch/
Best wishes,
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--- a/debian/patches/reproducible-build 1970-01-01 01:00:00.000000000 +0100
--- b/debian/patches/reproducible-build 2018-04-18 18:48:03.072934833 +0100
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+Description: Make the build reproducible
+Author: Chris Lamb <la...@debian.org>
+Last-Update: 2018-04-18
+
+--- strace-4.21.orig/file-date-gen
++++ strace-4.21/file-date-gen
+@@ -20,6 +20,11 @@ date=
+
+ [ -f "${DATE_FILE}" ] && date="$(cat "${DATE_FILE}")"
+
++# Use SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH if it exists.
++# <https://reproducible-builds.org/specs/source-date-epoch/>
++[ -n "${SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH}" ] ||
++ date="@${SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH}"
++
+ [ -n "${date}" ] ||
+ date="$(git log -n 1 --format=format:%cD --no-patch "${FILE}")"
+
+@@ -32,4 +37,4 @@ date=
+ exit 1
+ }
+
+-exec printf "%s" $(date "+${DATE_FORMAT}" -d "${date}")
++exec printf "%s" $(date -u "+${DATE_FORMAT}" -d "${date}")
--- a/debian/patches/series 2018-04-18 18:43:14.655180095 +0100
--- b/debian/patches/series 2018-04-18 18:48:01.920928268 +0100
@@ -1 +1,2 @@
no-arm-unaligned-access
+reproducible-build
