Source: elinks Version: 0.16.1.1-2 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch User: reproducible-bui...@lists.alioth.debian.org Usertags: timestamps X-Debbugs-Cc: reproducible-b...@lists.alioth.debian.org
Hi, Whilst working on the Reproducible Builds effort [0] we noticed that elinks could not be built reproducibly. This because the manual PDF embeds the current build date: ├── ./usr/share/doc/elinks/manual.pdf.gz ├── manual.pdf ├── pdftotext {} - │ @@ -13,15 +13,15 @@ │ │ WRITTEN BY │ │ DATE │ │ SIGNATURE │ │ -June 5, 2023 │ +July 8, 2024 │ A patch is attached that exports FORCE_SOURCE_DATE in debian/rules, a LaTeX-specific variable to ensure that LaTeX tools respect the SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH environment variable. [0] https://reproducible-builds.org/ Regards, -- ,''`. : :' : Chris Lamb `. `'` la...@debian.org / chris-lamb.co.uk `-
--- a/debian/rules 2023-06-06 09:34:21.315523819 -0700 --- b/debian/rules 2023-06-06 09:41:59.679487294 -0700 @@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ export DEB_BUILD_MAINT_OPTIONS = hardening=+all export DEB_LDFLAGS_MAINT_APPEND = -Wl,-z,defs +export FORCE_SOURCE_DATE = 1 CONF_OPTS= -Dtest=true \ -Dlzma=true \