[Debichem-devel] Bug#1000944: apbs: reproducible builds: Timestamps and timing information in io.mc examples

[Vagrant Cascadian]

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

Various example io.mc files include timestamps and timing information:

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

  /usr/share/apbs/examples/FKBP/io.mc

  #·Creation·Date·and·Time:··Mon·Nov·29·17:45:07·2021
  vs.
  #·Creation·Date·and·Time:··Tue·Jan··3·05:37:35·2023

  Vacc_SASA:·Time·elapsed:·1.315417
  vs.
  Vacc_SASA:·Time·elapsed:·1.368298

The attached patch fixes this by removing these files from debian/rules
in the dh_auto_install override.

If it is not appropriate to remove the io.mc files, another approach
might be to sanitize out all the timestamps and timing information,
although this would seem likely to be a game of whack-a-mole over time.

With this patch applied, apbs should build reproducibly on
tests.reproducible-builds.org once it migrates to the the
testing/bookworm suite, although unstable and experimental also vary
build paths which trigger other issues.


Thanks for maintaining apbs!


live well,
  vagrant
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