Package: mailagent
Version: 3.1-81-4
Severity: normal
Tags: patch
User: m...@linux.it
Usertags: usrmerge
Dear Maintainer,
The package currently fails to build reproducibly on merge-usr vs
non-merged systems.
https://tests.reproducible-builds.org/debian/rb-pkg/unstable/amd64/mailagent.html
The problem is that the full path of cat and zcat is lookup up via PATH
at build-time and embedded into shipped files.
On merged-usr systems /bin is a symlink to /usr/bin and PATH normally
contains /usr/bin before /bin, thus finding /usr/bin/cat (instead
of /bin/cat like on a non-merged system).
The problem is easily fixed by explicitly passing the paths to use
to configure via debian/rules. Please see attached debdiff.
Regards,
Andreas Henriksson
diff -u mailagent-3.1-81/debian/changelog mailagent-3.1-81/debian/changelog
--- mailagent-3.1-81/debian/changelog
+++ mailagent-3.1-81/debian/changelog
@@ -1,3 +1,11 @@
+mailagent (1:3.1-81-4.1) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium
+
+ * Non-maintainer upload.
+ * Pass configure flags -D cat=/bin/cat -D zcat=/bin/zcat
+ - fixes reproducible build on merged-usr vs non-merged
+
+ -- Andreas Henriksson <andr...@fatal.se> Sun, 02 Dec 2018 17:44:18 +0100
+
mailagent (1:3.1-81-4) unstable; urgency=low
* Commented out a $USER in the man page shell sources that was capturing
diff -u mailagent-3.1-81/debian/rules mailagent-3.1-81/debian/rules
--- mailagent-3.1-81/debian/rules
+++ mailagent-3.1-81/debian/rules
@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@
eval "$(dpkg-buildflags --export=sh)" && \
sh ./Configure \
-de \
+ -D cat=/bin/cat -D zcat=/bin/zcat \
-D prefix=$(PREFIX) \
-D orgname=/etc/news/organization \
-D myhostname=localhost \
