Source: desproxy
Version: 0.1.0~pre3-8
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch
User: reproducible-bui...@lists.alioth.debian.org
Usertags: timestamps
X-Debbugs-CC: reproducible-bui...@lists.alioth.debian.org
Hi!
While working on Debian's “reproducible builds” effort [1], we have
noticed that desproxy doesn't build reproducibly.
It embeds the current date into the manpage.
The attached patch fixes this by using the last changelog date
as a timestamp that will be embedded.
Regards,
Reiner
[1]: https://wiki.debian.org/ReproducibleBuilds
diff --git a/debian/pod2man.mk b/debian/pod2man.mk
index 64bc797..f878a28 100644
--- a/debian/pod2man.mk
+++ b/debian/pod2man.mk
@@ -34,9 +34,10 @@ endif
PACKAGE ?= package
# Optional variables to set
+BUILD_DATE ?= $$(dpkg-parsechangelog -S Date -lchangelog)
MANSECT ?= 1
PODCENTER ?= User Commands
-PODDATE = $$(date +%Y-%m-%d)
+PODDATE = $$(date -u +%Y-%m-%d -d $(BUILD_DATE))
# Directories
MANSRC =
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