[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#834139: ncbi-tools6: please add support for SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH

[Sascha Steinbiss]

Source: ncbi-tools6
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch
User: reproducible-builds at lists.alioth.debian.org
Usertags: timestamps


Dear Maintainer,

while trying to make the metastudent-data package reproducible, I noticed that
the binary package contains BLAST index files which embed timestamps
representing the index build time. I have attached a patch to libncbi6 that
adds support for SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH [1]  to avoid embedding the current time
and date into generated index files.
I hope that this will make the build of packages including BLAST indexes in
their artifacts reproducible.

Thanks and kind regards
Sascha

[1] https://reproducible-builds.org/specs/source-date-epoch
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