On 2026-05-22, Chris Lamb wrote: > Whilst working on the Reproducible Builds effort [0], we noticed that > xpenguins could not be built reproducibly. > > This is because the manual package is generated with the current date. > I've attached a patch that seeds this date from SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH, if > available.
I can confirm that this fix is still needed, and it is also demonstrated for the loong64 build: https://reproduce.debian.net/excuses.html?source_name=xpenguins https://reproduce.debian.net/loong64/api/v1/builds/59894/artifacts/123119/diffoscope │ │ ├── ./usr/share/man/man1/xpenguins.1.gz │ │ │ ├── xpenguins.1 │ │ │ │ @@ -1,8 +1,8 @@ │ │ │ │ -.TH XPenguins 1 "May 2026" "XPenguins 3.2.4" │ │ │ │ +.TH XPenguins 1 "September 2026" "XPenguins 3.2.4" │ │ │ │ .SH NAME │ │ │ │ xpenguins \- cute little penguins that walk along the tops of your windows │ │ │ │ .SH SYNOPSIS │ │ │ │ .B xpenguins │ │ │ │ [-option ...] │ │ │ │ .SH DESCRIPTION │ │ │ │ .IR XPenguins I would like to perform an NMU fixing this in the coming weeks with the following proposed patch: diff --git a/Makefile.am b/Makefile.am index 57749aa..54cbb37 100644 --- a/Makefile.am +++ b/Makefile.am @@ -24,8 +24,10 @@ EXTRA_DIST = lay-out-frames.scm resize-frames.scm \ man_MANS = xpenguins.1 +BUILD_DATE = $(shell date --utc --date=@$(or $(SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH),$(shell date +%s)) "+%F") + xpenguins.1: xpenguins.1.tmpl - sed "s'SYSTEMTHEMES'$(datadir)/xpenguins/themes/*';s/VERSION/$(VERSION)/;s/DATE/`date +'%B %Y'`/" < $< > $@ + sed "s'SYSTEMTHEMES'$(datadir)/xpenguins/themes/*';s/VERSION/$(VERSION)/;s/DATE/$(BUILD_DATE)/" < $< > $@ tarfile = $(top_builddir)/xroachng-$(VERSION).tar.gz I have adjusted the original proposed patch to use +%F to avoid locale variations, which uses a YYYY-MM-DD format (e.g. 2026-10-31). Are there any outstanding concerns? live well, vagrant
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