Package: systraq
Version: 20160803-3
Severity: normal
Tags: patch
User: m...@linux.it
Usertags: usrmerge
Dear Maintainer,
The package currently fails to reproducibly build on merged-usr vs
non-merged systems.
https://tests.reproducible-builds.org/debian/rb-pkg/unstable/amd64/systraq.html
The problem is caused by embedding the full path of run-parts looked
up via PATH. On merged-usr systems /bin is a symlink to /usr/bin
and normally PATH has /usr/bin before /bin, thus you end up
with /usr/bin/run-parts on merged-usr systems while it's
/bin/run-parts on non-merged systems.
In my opinion the best solution would be to avoid embedding a path at
all and just rely on PATH at *runtime* (instead of build-time).
Unfortunately the generated configure script for some reason only
accepts RUN_PATHS variables that contains slashes for unknown reasons.
(This doesn't happen in all packages I've looked at, only some.)
Thus the solution for now is to pass RUN_PARTS=/bin/run-parts to
configure. Please see attached debdiff.
Regards,
Andreas Henriksson
diff -Nru systraq-20160803/debian/changelog systraq-20160803/debian/changelog
--- systraq-20160803/debian/changelog 2017-08-17 10:54:16.000000000 +0200
+++ systraq-20160803/debian/changelog 2018-12-02 15:25:39.000000000 +0100
@@ -1,3 +1,11 @@
+systraq (20160803-3.1) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium
+
+ * Non-maintainer upload.
+ * Pass RUN_PARTS=/bin/run-parts to configure
+ - fixes reproducible build on merged-usr vs non-merged systems
+
+ -- Andreas Henriksson <andr...@fatal.se> Sun, 02 Dec 2018 15:25:39 +0100
+
systraq (20160803-3) unstable; urgency=medium
* debian/20systraq: invert logic in order to exit successfully in case
diff -Nru systraq-20160803/debian/rules systraq-20160803/debian/rules
--- systraq-20160803/debian/rules 2017-08-15 18:10:25.000000000 +0200
+++ systraq-20160803/debian/rules 2018-12-02 15:25:39.000000000 +0100
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
include /usr/share/cdbs/1/rules/debhelper.mk
include /usr/share/cdbs/1/class/autotools.mk
-DEB_CONFIGURE_EXTRA_FLAGS := --libexecdir=/usr/share
+DEB_CONFIGURE_EXTRA_FLAGS := RUN_PARTS=/bin/run-parts --libexecdir=/usr/share
install/systraq::
rm -f debian/systraq/etc/systraq/systraq.d/*
