Bug#1140368: spooles: please make the build reproducible

[Jochen Sprickerhof]

Source: spooles
Version: 2.2-16
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch
X-Debbugs-Cc: reproducible-bugs at lists.alioth.debian.org
User: reproducible-builds at lists.alioth.debian.org
Usertags: timestamps

Hi,

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

This is because the LaTeX-based documentation includes the current
build date. This can be specified to use SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH through the
LaTeX-specific FORCE_SOURCE_DATE environment variable.

Adding

export FORCE_SOURCE_DATE=1

at the top of debian/rules makes the package reproducible

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

Cheers Jochen