Source: dc3dd
Severity: normal
Tags: patch
User: [email protected]
Usertags: timestamps
X-Debbugs-Cc: [email protected]

The date is embedded in /usr/share/man/man1/dc3dd.1.gz:

  
https://tests.reproducible-builds.org/debian/rb-pkg/bookworm/amd64/diffoscope-results/dc3dd.html

  .TH·DC3DD·"1"·"October·2022"·"dc3dd·7.2.646"·"User·Commands"
  vs.
  .TH·DC3DD·"1"·"November·2023"·"dc3dd·7.2.646"·"User·Commands"

The attached patches fix this by adding help2man to Build-Depends and
using the packaged version of help2man from Makefile.am.

According to my local tests, with these patches applied dc3dd should
build reproducibly on tests.reproducible-builds.org!

Thanks for maintaining dc3dd!

live well,
  vagrant
From 0ff67d76e43a58719330b29cf6dc666c6c3adb48 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Vagrant Cascadian <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2022 01:05:51 +0000
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] debian/control: Add help2man to Build-Depends.

---
 debian/control | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index 389d0ef..417b1b4 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ Maintainer: Debian Security Tools <[email protected]>
 Build-Depends: bison,
                debhelper-compat (= 13),
                gperf,
+               help2man,
                liblocale-gettext-perl
 Standards-Version: 4.6.0.1
 Homepage: http://dc3dd.sf.net
-- 
2.37.2

From 00a23d1d0db3ab5f6abd7dbba6a6ae09a7f0e2ed Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Vagrant Cascadian <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2022 01:06:25 +0000
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] man/Makefile.am: Use packaged help2man.

The embedded copy of help2man is an old version lacking fixes to
support reproducible timestamps.
---
 man/Makefile.am | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/man/Makefile.am b/man/Makefile.am
index 19b4841..3ba7c8b 100644
--- a/man/Makefile.am
+++ b/man/Makefile.am
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ mapped_name = `echo $*|sed 's/^install$$/ginstall/; s/^test$$/[/'`
 	         rm -rf $t;					\
 	         mkdir $t;					\
 	         (cd $t && $(LN_S) ../../src/$(mapped_name) $*); \
-	            $(PERL) -- $(srcdir)/help2man		\
+	            help2man					\
 	             --source='$(PACKAGE_STRING)'		\
 	             --include=$(srcdir)/$*.x			\
 	             --output=$t/$@ $t/$*;			\
-- 
2.37.2

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