I have been told that dh_strip_nondeterminism should be called even with with “nostrip” because it does not strip symbols.
So here is an updated patch (to apply in replacement of the first one).
diff -ru xchat-2.8.8.orig/debian/control xchat-2.8.8/debian/control --- xchat-2.8.8.orig/debian/control 2015-08-04 18:38:25.271425177 +0000 +++ xchat-2.8.8/debian/control 2015-08-04 19:20:18.931512526 +0000 @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ Maintainer: Davide Puricelli (evo) <[email protected]> Uploaders: Bart Martens <[email protected]> Standards-Version: 3.8.4.0 -Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 5), bison, libssl-dev, libglib2.0-dev, libgtk2.0-dev (>= 2.0.6), libperl-dev, gettext (>= 0.10.37), libtool, zlib1g-dev, perl (>= 5.8), python-dev, tcl-dev, autotools-dev, libdbus-glib-1-dev, libgtkspell-dev, gconf2, dpkg-dev (>= 1.13.19), libsexy-dev, chrpath, imagemagick, autoconf +Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 5), bison, libssl-dev, libglib2.0-dev, libgtk2.0-dev (>= 2.0.6), libperl-dev, gettext (>= 0.10.37), libtool, zlib1g-dev, perl (>= 5.8), python-dev, tcl-dev, autotools-dev, libdbus-glib-1-dev, libgtkspell-dev, gconf2, dpkg-dev (>= 1.13.19), libsexy-dev, chrpath, imagemagick, autoconf, dh-strip-nondeterminism Homepage: http://www.xchat.org/ Package: xchat --- xchat-2.8.8.orig/debian/rules 2015-08-04 18:38:25.271425177 +0000 +++ xchat-2.8.8/debian/rules 2015-08-04 20:22:48.147642811 +0000 @@ -90,6 +90,7 @@ ifeq "$(findstring nostrip,$(DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS))" "" dh_strip -pxchat endif + dh_strip_nondeterminism -pxchat dh_compress -pxchat dh_fixperms -pxchat dh_installdeb -pxchat diff -ru xchat-2.8.8.orig/src/fe-gtk/about.c xchat-2.8.8/src/fe-gtk/about.c --- xchat-2.8.8.orig/src/fe-gtk/about.c 2015-08-04 18:38:25.267425176 +0000 +++ xchat-2.8.8/src/fe-gtk/about.c 2015-08-04 19:28:08.000000000 +0000 @@ -55,7 +55,6 @@ (snprintf) (buf, sizeof (buf), "An IRC Client for UNIX.\n\n" - "This binary was compiled on "__DATE__"\n" "Using GTK %d.%d.%d X %d\n" "Running on %s", gtk_major_version, gtk_minor_version, gtk_micro_version, @@ -126,7 +125,7 @@ #else "<b>Renderer</b>: %s\n" #endif - "<b>Compiled</b>: "__DATE__"\n\n" + "\n" "<small>\302\251 1998-2010 Peter \305\275elezn\303\275 <[email protected]></small>", _("A multiplatform IRC Client"), get_cpu_str(), diff -ru xchat-2.8.8.orig/src/fe-text/fe-text.c xchat-2.8.8/src/fe-text/fe-text.c --- xchat-2.8.8.orig/src/fe-text/fe-text.c 2015-08-04 18:38:25.267425176 +0000 +++ xchat-2.8.8/src/fe-text/fe-text.c 2015-08-04 19:28:08.000000000 +0000 @@ -103,7 +103,6 @@ "\n" " \017xchat \00310"PACKAGE_VERSION"\n" " \017Running on \00310%s \017glib \00310%d.%d.%d\n" - " \017This binary compiled \00310"__DATE__"\017\n", get_cpu_str(), glib_major_version, glib_minor_version, glib_micro_version); fe_print_text (sess, buf, 0);
