Bug#903098: v4l2loopback: please make the build reproducible

Chris Lamb lamby at debian.org
Fri Jul 6 07:25:50 BST 2018


Source: v4l2loopback
Version: 0.12.0-1
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch
User: reproducible-builds at lists.alioth.debian.org
Usertags: environment
X-Debbugs-Cc: reproducible-bugs at lists.alioth.debian.org

Hi,

Whilst working on the Reproducible Builds effort [0], we noticed
that v4l2loopback could not be built reproducibly.

This is due to encoding the username/group in the shipped "source"
tarball.

Patch attached.

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


Regards,

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--- a/debian/rules	2018-07-06 08:19:24.179305058 +0200
--- b/debian/rules	2018-07-06 08:20:40.791737220 +0200
@@ -43,6 +43,7 @@
 	done
 	# Prepare the debian source tarball
 	tar --sort=name -jcf debian/v4l2loopback-source/usr/src/v4l2loopback.tar.bz2 \
+		--owner=0 --group=0 --numeric-owner \
 		-C debian/tmp --mtime="$(BUILD_DATE)" modules
 
 install/v4l2loopback-dkms::


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