[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#956549: gmap: please make the build reproducible

Chris Lamb lamby at debian.org
Sun Apr 12 17:58:25 BST 2020


Source: gmap
Version: 2020-04-08+ds-1
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch
User: reproducible-builds at lists.alioth.debian.org
Usertags: buildpath
X-Debbugs-Cc: reproducible-bugs at lists.alioth.debian.org

Hi,

Whilst working on the Reproducible Builds effort [0] we noticed that
gmap could not be built reproducibly.

This is because the tests embed the absolute build dir, as well as
inherit the build system's choice of /bin/sh symlink.

Patch attached that normalises these prior to calling tar(1).

 [0] https://reproducible-builds.org/


Regards,

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