[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#840140: fastx-toolkit: please make the build reproducible

[Sascha Steinbiss]

Hi Chris,

thanks for the report. I just took a look at the patch and now it seems that there are no man pages built for fasta_clipping_histogram.pl and 
fastx_barcode_splitter.pl at all any more, is that intentional?

Cheers
Sascha

On Sat, 08 Oct 2016 20:28:18 +0100 Chris Lamb <lamby at debian.org> wrote:
> Source: fastx-toolkit
> Version: 0.0.14-1
> Severity: wishlist
> Tags: patch
> User: reproducible-builds at lists.alioth.debian.org
> Usertags: buildpath
> X-Debbugs-Cc: reproducible-builds at lists.alioth.debian.org
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Whilst working on the Reproducible Builds effort [0], we noticed
> that fastx-toolkit could not be built reproducibly.
> 
> Patch attached.
> 
> I ended up patching upstream sources instead of fixing/extending the
> regexes in debian/rules; the result is subjectively far cleaner and
> objectively less brittle.
> 
> 
>  [0] https://reproducible-builds.org/
> 
> 
> Regards,
> 
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