Source: sen Version: 0.3.0-1 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch User: [email protected] Usertags: timestamps fileordering
Hi! While working on the “reproducible builds” effort [1], we have noticed that sen could not be built reproducibly [2]. The attached patch renders the build timestamp in a consistent timezone, causing the "build date" comment in the man page nroff source to be reproducible. Cheers, Daniel P.S. Incidentally, setting the "build date" to the changelog timestamp — as sen does — is indeed the recommended approach: see [3]. [1]: https://wiki.debian.org/ReproducibleBuilds [2]: https://tests.reproducible-builds.org/dbdtxt/unstable/amd64/sen_0.3.0-1.diffoscope.txt [3]: https://reproducible-builds.org/specs/source-date-epoch/
diff --git a/debian/rules b/debian/rules index d5be1f2..d39019d 100755 --- a/debian/rules +++ b/debian/rules @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ #export DH_VERBOSE = 1 export LC_ALL=C.UTF-8 -DATE := $(shell date --date="$$(dpkg-parsechangelog --show-field Date)" +%F) +DATE := $(shell env TZ=UTC date --date="$$(dpkg-parsechangelog --show-field Date)" +%F) %: dh $@ --with python3 --buildsystem=pybuild
