Bug#996834: pytools: please make the build reproducible

[Chris Lamb]

Source: pytools
Version: 2021.2.8-1
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
pytools could not be built reproducibly.

This is because it calculates the project name from the directory it is
built from (in the patched doc/conf.py) so the documentation varies
depending on the buildpath.

A patch is attached that hardcodes the project name to 'pytools'. This is
not ideal, but this patch is essentially a code copy of a larger problem
so the special-casing is not as bad as it might initially appear.

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


Regards,

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