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has caused the report #782345,
regarding automake: mdate-sh has undeterministic output
to be marked as having been forwarded to the upstream software
author(s) [email protected]
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Patch forwarded upstream.
* Reiner Herrmann ([email protected]) wrote:
> Source: automake-1.14
> Version: 1:1.14.1-4
> Severity: wishlist
> User: [email protected]
> Usertags: toolchain
> Tags: upstream
> X-Debbugs-CC: [email protected]
>
> Hi!
>
> While working on Debian's “reproducible builds” effort [1], we have
> noticed that the output of mdate-sh (which is part of automake, and
> shipped by some upstream source tarballs) can produce different
> output depending on the timezone.
> Different output of mdate-sh can then lead to further differences
> in the build process [2].
>
> We already forwarded a patch to [email protected], but it
> hasn't appeared yet in their mailing list archive (which looks a little
> dead with no new mails since January).
> The patch [3] fixes the timezone used by mdate-sh to UTC, which will
> always produce the same output independent of the timezone of the caller.
>
> Regards,
> Reiner
>
> [1]: https://wiki.debian.org/ReproducibleBuilds
> [2]:
> https://wiki.debian.org/ReproducibleBuilds/TimezoneVarianceBecauseOfAutomakeMdate
> [3]:
> https://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/reproducible-builds/Week-of-Mon-20150406/001380.html
>
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