Control: clone -1 -2 Control: reassign -2 dh-cargo Control: retitle -2 dh-cargo: try harder to install unmodified source
On Tue, Dec 2, 2025, at 11:28 PM, Chris Lamb wrote: > Source: rust-doxx > Version: 0.1.2-1 > Severity: wishlist > Tags: patch > User: [email protected] > Usertags: nocheck > X-Debbugs-Cc: [email protected] > > Hi, > > Whilst working on the Reproducible Builds effort [0], we noticed that > rust-doxx could not be built reproducibly. > > This is because the tests cause a Cargo.lock file to be created, which > end up in the binary package, but only if the tests are run. thanks! this is actually an issue with dh-cargo, because it will try to install the sources in dh_auto_install, but doesn't know about all potential modifications done by dh_auto_configure/build/test which run before. some possible solutions: - cp to a tmp directory early on (e.g., during dh_auto_build), and to the final location in dh_auto_install - create a tarball early on (... like copying above) - use `cargo package` as intermediate format (this is actually generating a tarball, and is the first step of publishing on crates.io), extract during install (has other side-effects though, including newer cargo potentially behaving differently)
