Source: gmap
Version: 2020-04-08+ds-1
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch
User: reproducible-bui...@lists.alioth.debian.org
Usertags: buildpath
X-Debbugs-Cc: reproducible-b...@lists.alioth.debian.org
Hi,
Whilst working on the Reproducible Builds effort [0] we noticed that
gmap could not be built reproducibly.
This is because the tests embed the absolute build dir, as well as
inherit the build system's choice of /bin/sh symlink.
Patch attached that normalises these prior to calling tar(1).
[0] https://reproducible-builds.org/
Regards,
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--- a/debian/rules 2020-04-12 17:00:43.068505091 +0100
--- b/debian/rules 2020-04-12 17:35:28.162127458 +0100
@@ -43,6 +43,9 @@
override_dh_installexamples:
mkdir
$(CURDIR)/debian/$(DEB_SOURCE)/usr/share/doc/$(DEB_SOURCE)/examples
+ find tests/ -type f -print0 | xargs -0r sed -i \
+ -e 's@$(CURDIR)@«buildpath»@g' \
+ -e 's@\#! /bin/bash@\#! /bin/sh@g'
tar --sort=name \
--mtime="@${SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH}" \
--owner=root --group=root --numeric-owner \
