Hi Sebastian, On 08.04.2015 00:03, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote: > I'm about to remove faketime from the clamav package. It was introduced > for the "ReproducibleBuilds" goal but it is not really helping.
Well, it's helping insofar as it actually makes the package reproducible. > I got this > |faketimeing is a hack we dont want to use the reasons are explained in > |the wiki > from Holger Levsen. I agree though, that it's sort of a hack. > I was asking for an exception (for the __DATE__ > macro) since faketime is used but got this instead. I did not find a reason > in the wiki only suggestions to use for instance in > TimestampsInPDFGeneratedByLaTeX :) Maybe #778462 is something. This bug is fixed in jessie's pbuilder (#700591) and worked-around by Holger in the pbuilder used by the ReproducibleBuilds effort. > It is not helping for ReproducibleBuilds as you can see in [0]. They build the > package with -Werror=date-time and the __DATE__ macro turns into an error so > it > fails the test. > Anything from your side not doing so? I don't mind fixing this properly, i.e. by removing the __DATE__ macro. This seems to be sufficient to make the package reproducible without faketime. Can you forward this __DATE__ problem to tomsfastmath upstream? Best regards, Andreas _______________________________________________ Pkg-clamav-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-clamav-devel
