[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#964960: gmap: please make the build reproducible

[Chris Lamb]

Source: gmap
Version: 2020-04-08+ds1-2
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch
User: reproducible-builds at lists.alioth.debian.org
Usertags: environment randomness
X-Debbugs-Cc: reproducible-bugs at lists.alioth.debian.org

Hi,

Whilst working on the Reproducible Builds effort [0] we noticed that
gmap could not be built reproducibly.

This is because the tests.tar.xz file contained some non-deterministic
or generated data:


│ │ │ │ │ ├── file list
│ │ │ │ │ │ @@ -1,12 +1,12 @@
│ │ │ │ │ │  drwxr-xr-x   0        0        0        0 2020-04-18 18:38:39.000000 tests/
│ │ │ │ │ │ --rw-r--r--   0        0        0    29029 2020-04-18 18:38:39.000000 tests/Makefile
│ │ │ │ │ │ +-rw-r--r--   0        0        0    29047 2020-04-18 18:38:39.000000 tests/Makefile
│ │ │ │ │ │  -rw-r--r--   0        0        0     1319 2020-04-18 18:38:39.000000 tests/Makefile.am
│ │ │ │ │ │  -rw-r--r--   0        0        0    29193 2020-04-18 18:38:39.000000 tests/Makefile.in
│ │ │ │ │ │ --rw-r--r--   0        0        0      560 2020-04-18 18:38:39.000000 tests/align.log
│ │ │ │ │ │ +-rw-r--r--   0        0        0      559 2020-04-18 18:38:39.000000 tests/align.log
│ │ │ │ │ │  -rwxr-xr-x   0        0        0      206 2020-04-18 18:38:39.000000 tests/align.test
│ │ │ │ │ │  -rw-r--r--   0        0        0      206 2020-04-18 18:38:39.000000 tests/align.test.in

Patch attached that does not ship these generated files (plus Makefile.in).


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


Regards,

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