Source: maven-plugin-tools
Version: 3.3-1
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch
User: reproducible-bui...@lists.alioth.debian.org
Usertags: timestamps toolchain
X-Debbugs-CC: reproducible-bui...@lists.alioth.debian.org

Hi!

While working on Debian's “reproducible builds” effort [1], we have
noticed that maven-plugin-tools generates unreproducible plugin descriptors
(example [2]), because it embeds the build date into a comment inside the file.

As the date provides no valuable information, it would be nice if it was 
removed,
so that more packages using it become reproducible.
A proposal for this is in the attached patch.

Regards,
 Reiner

[1]: https://wiki.debian.org/ReproducibleBuilds
[2]: 
https://reproducible.debian.net/rb-pkg/unstable/amd64/java-comment-preprocessor.html
diff --git a/debian/patches/04-reproducible-plugin-descriptor.patch b/debian/patches/04-reproducible-plugin-descriptor.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..c675411
--- /dev/null
+++ b/debian/patches/04-reproducible-plugin-descriptor.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+Author: Reiner Herrmann <rei...@reiner-h.de>
+Description: Don't include the date in xml files
+ Embedding the current date will result in unreproducible files.
+
+Index: maven-plugin-tools-3.3/maven-plugin-tools-generators/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/tools/plugin/generator/PluginDescriptorGenerator.java
+===================================================================
+--- maven-plugin-tools-3.3.orig/maven-plugin-tools-generators/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/tools/plugin/generator/PluginDescriptorGenerator.java
++++ maven-plugin-tools-3.3/maven-plugin-tools-generators/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/tools/plugin/generator/PluginDescriptorGenerator.java
+@@ -24,8 +24,6 @@ import java.io.FileOutputStream;
+ import java.io.IOException;
+ import java.io.OutputStreamWriter;
+ import java.io.Writer;
+-import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;
+-import java.util.Date;
+ import java.util.LinkedHashMap;
+ import java.util.LinkedHashSet;
+ import java.util.List;
+@@ -132,8 +130,7 @@ public class PluginDescriptorGenerator
+ 
+             XMLWriter w = new PrettyPrintXMLWriter( writer, encoding, null );
+ 
+-            w.writeMarkup( "\n<!-- Generated by maven-plugin-tools " + getVersion() + " on " + new SimpleDateFormat(
+-                "yyyy-MM-dd" ).format( new Date() ) + " -->\n\n" );
++            w.writeMarkup( "\n<!-- Generated by maven-plugin-tools " + getVersion() + " -->\n\n" );
+ 
+             w.startElement( "plugin" );
+ 
diff --git a/debian/patches/series b/debian/patches/series
index 2d00408..eac1ecc 100644
--- a/debian/patches/series
+++ b/debian/patches/series
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
 01-maven2-api-compatibility.patch
 02-plexus-archiver1-compatibility.patch
 03-plexus-utils2-compatibility.patch
+04-reproducible-plugin-descriptor.patch

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