[Debian-astro-maintainers] Bug#986738: libstarlink-ast-doc: Fails to build reproducibly: Embeds date in the docs

[Nilesh Patra]

Package: libstarlink-ast-doc
Version: 9.2.3+dfsg-1
Severity: normal
Tags: timestamps
User: reproducible-builds at lists.alioth.debian.org
Usertags: usrmerge
X-Debbugs-Cc: nilesh at debian.org, nilesh at debian.org, reproducible-bugs at lists.alioth.debian.org

Dear Maintainer,

starlink-ast fails to build reproducibly because it embeds current date
in the documentation and ast.h

The patchs for the same is commited into salsa here[1][2]

This should be ready for upload after bullseye release. I am reporting bug so that
this change is not lost somehow.

[1]: https://salsa.debian.org/debian-astro-team/starlink-ast/-/commit/3856f00f5b595163d4b04389288fffde42316e90
[2]: https://salsa.debian.org/debian-astro-team/starlink-ast/-/commit/8e50d3ea7244702baac12aa587f71cd653ae4fdf

Nilesh

-- System Information:
Debian Release: bullseye/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 5.7.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU threads)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: unable to detect

-- no debconf information