Bug#950419: m4: reproducible builds: Includes date in generated documentation and .info files

[Vagrant Cascadian]

On 2020-02-01, Vagrant Cascadian wrote:
> From d08756df93f65d0cdcdf21f110522268dbf2a5db Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Vagrant Cascadian <vagr...@reproducible-builds.org>
> Date: Sat, 1 Feb 2020 03:40:52 -0800
> Subject: [PATCH] Patch to remove date from makeinfo generated documentation,
>  enabling reproducible builds regardless of build date.
>
> ---
>  ...date-from-m4-texinfo-file-to-ensure-.patch | 26 +++++++++++++++++++
>  debian/patches/series                         |  1 +
>  2 files changed, 27 insertions(+)
>  create mode 100644 
> debian/patches/03-Patch-to-remove-date-from-m4-texinfo-file-to-ensure-.patch
>
> diff --git 
> a/debian/patches/03-Patch-to-remove-date-from-m4-texinfo-file-to-ensure-.patch
>  
> b/debian/patches/03-Patch-to-remove-date-from-m4-texinfo-file-to-ensure-.patch
> new file mode 100644
> index 0000000..ecf6f8d
> --- /dev/null
> +++ 
> b/debian/patches/03-Patch-to-remove-date-from-m4-texinfo-file-to-ensure-.patch
> @@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
> +From 8650983dc04ddc719897293bc174962e8537dff1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> +From: Vagrant Cascadian <vagr...@reproducible-builds.org>
> +Date: Sat, 1 Feb 2020 03:14:26 -0800
> +Subject: [PATCH] Patch to remove date from m4 texinfo file to ensure
> + reproducible builds regardless of when it is built.
> +
> +---
> + doc/m4.texi | 2 +-
> + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> +
> +diff --git a/doc/m4.texi b/doc/m4.texi
> +index aa95e9f..a1a2c88 100644
> +--- a/doc/m4.texi
> ++++ b/doc/m4.texi
> +@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@
> + 
> + @copying
> + 
> +-This manual (@value{UPDATED}) is for GNU M4 (version
> ++This manual is for GNU M4 (version
> + @value{VERSION}), a package containing an implementation of the m4 macro
> + language.
> + 
> +-- 
> +2.20.1
> +
> diff --git a/debian/patches/series b/debian/patches/series
> index fa320f5..903352e 100644
> --- a/debian/patches/series
> +++ b/debian/patches/series
> @@ -1,2 +1,3 @@
>  01-fix-ftbfs-with-glibc-2.28.patch
>  02-documentencoding.patch
> +03-Patch-to-remove-date-from-m4-texinfo-file-to-ensure-.patch
> -- 
> 2.20.1

I would very much like to see this land in bullseye; would you consider
uploading soon or be amenable to an NMU?


live well,
  vagrant

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