Bug#977529: vtk7: reproducible builds: build timestamps in documentation

Vagrant Cascadian vagrant at reproducible-builds.org
Wed Dec 16 04:36:00 GMT 2020


Source: vtk7
Severity: normal
Tags: patch
User: reproducible-builds at lists.alioth.debian.org
Usertags: timestamps
X-Debbugs-Cc: reproducible-bugs at lists.alioth.debian.org

Many documentation files embed the build timestamp.

  https://tests.reproducible-builds.org/debian/rb-pkg/bullseye/amd64/diffoscope-results/vtk7.html

  ./usr/share/doc/vtk7/html/c2_vtk_e_0.html

  53 <li>465·class(es)·in·416·file(s)·from·directories·matching·<code>^Examples$</code>·on·Tue·Jan·4·00:10:04·2022</li>
  53 <li>465·class(es)·in·416·file(s)·from·directories·matching·<code>^Examples$</code>·on·Wed·Dec·2·21:09:51·2020</li>


The attached patch fixes this by removing calls from localtime when
generating the documentation.


Thanks for maintaining vtk7!


live well,
  vagrant
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