user reproducible-bui...@lists.alioth.debian.org usertag -1 + randomness thanks
Hi, On Tue, Jul 12, 2022 at 09:42:47PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > On Tue, 2022-07-12 at 13:36 +0300, Andrius Merkys wrote: > > > This was caused by '--version' option not being supported by some of the > > programs. Fixed in 2.5.0-2 upload. > > Looks like there are some more errors for --help, see this command: > > $ zgrep -iE -- '-help|not valid' /usr/share/man/man1/pdb_*.1.gz > > Also a lot of the manual pages are even more broken now, some of them > contain just an error message from the program and no help text but > that help text was present in the 2.5.0-1 upload. I used diffoscope to > compare the 2.5.0-1 and 2.5.0-2 binaries to notice this. The builds also do not seem deterministic now. Rebuilds on reproduce.debian.net show such a diff: ├── data.tar.xz │ ├── data.tar │ │ ├── ./usr/share/man/man1/pdb_wc.1.gz │ │ │ ├── pdb_wc.1 │ │ │ │ @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ │ │ │ │ .\" DO NOT MODIFY THIS FILE! It was generated by help2man 1.49.3. │ │ │ │ .TH PDB_WC "1" "September 2024" "pdb_wc 2.5.1" "User Commands" │ │ │ │ .SH NAME │ │ │ │ pdb_wc \- manual page for pdb_wc 2.5.1 │ │ │ │ .SH DESCRIPTION │ │ │ │ -pdb_wc The following options are not valid: 'pel\-' │ │ │ │ +pdb_wc The following options are not valid: 'epl\-' I don't quite understand what goes wrong with sed et al, but that seems bad. Please either fix it or if the manpages are useless anyway, drop help2man? Chris
