[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#887829: mcl: please make the build reproducible

[Andreas Tille]

Hi Chris,

On Sat, Jan 20, 2018 at 05:23:44PM +0530, Chris Lamb wrote:
> Whilst working on the Reproducible Builds effort [0], we noticed
> that mcl could not be built reproducibly.

As always thanks for this effort.
 
> By removing the strange $(doctmpdir) stuff, it ensure that mtimes etc
> are not modified and then a file is updated when it isn't AFAICT.
> 
> Patch attached.

The "strange $(doctmpdir) stuff" stuff was invented to enable building
the package twice in a row.  I now decided to repack the tarball and
remove all those files that are existing but will be recreated in the
build process.
 
Kind regards

       Andreas.

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