Source: bbswitch
Version: 0.8-1
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch
User: reproducible-builds@lists.alioth.debian.org
Usertags: timestamps
X-Debbugs-Cc: reproducible-builds@lists.alioth.debian.org

Hi,

While working on the "reproducible builds" effort [1], we have noticed
that bbswitch could not be built reproducibly.

The attached patch removes timestamps from the build system. Once
applied, bbswitch can be built reproducibly in our reproducible
toolchain.

 [1]: https://wiki.debian.org/ReproducibleBuilds


Regards,

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     : :'  :     Chris Lamb
     `. `'`      la...@debian.org / chris-lamb.co.uk
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diff -urNad bbswitch.orig/bbswitch-0.8/debian/rules 
bbswitch/bbswitch-0.8/debian/rules
--- bbswitch.orig/bbswitch-0.8/debian/rules     2015-02-15 10:35:15.491475845 
+0000
+++ bbswitch/bbswitch-0.8/debian/rules  2015-02-15 10:36:49.419590438 +0000
@@ -8,6 +8,8 @@
 version := $(shell dpkg-parsechangelog | grep '^Version:' | cut -d' ' -f2 |\
  rev | cut -d- -f2- | rev | cut -d':' -f2)
 
+BUILD_DATE := $(shell dpkg-parsechangelog --show-field Date)
+
 %:
        dh $@ --with dkms
 
@@ -33,7 +35,7 @@
        for file in changelog compat control control.modules.in copyright; do \
                install -m 644 debian/$$file 
debian/$(name)-source/usr/src/modules/$(name)/debian/; \
        done
-       cd debian/$(name)-source/usr/src && tar cfj $(name).tar.bz2 modules && 
rm -rf modules
+       cd debian/$(name)-source/usr/src && tar cfj $(name).tar.bz2 
--mtime="$(BUILD_DATE)" modules && rm -rf modules
 
 override_dh_installchangelogs:
        dh_installchangelogs NEWS
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