[Pkg-clamav-devel] faketime in clamav

[Andreas Cadhalpun]

Hi Sebastian,

On 08.04.2015 00:03, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote:
> I'm about to remove faketime from the clamav package. It was introduced
> for the "ReproducibleBuilds" goal but it is not really helping.

Well, it's helping insofar as it actually makes the package reproducible.

> I got this
> |faketimeing is a hack we dont want to use the reasons are explained in
> |the wiki
> from Holger Levsen.

I agree though, that it's sort of a hack.

> I was asking for an exception (for the __DATE__
> macro) since faketime is used but got this instead. I did not find a reason
> in the wiki only suggestions to use for instance in
> TimestampsInPDFGeneratedByLaTeX :) Maybe #778462 is something.

This bug is fixed in jessie's pbuilder (#700591) and worked-around by Holger
in the pbuilder used by the ReproducibleBuilds effort.

> It is not helping for ReproducibleBuilds as you can see in [0]. They build the
> package with -Werror=date-time and the __DATE__ macro turns into an error so it
> fails the test.
> Anything from your side not doing so?

I don't mind fixing this properly, i.e. by removing the __DATE__ macro.
This seems to be sufficient to make the package reproducible without faketime.
Can you forward this __DATE__ problem to tomsfastmath upstream?

Best regards,
Andreas