[Pkg-clamav-devel] faketime in clamav

[Andreas Cadhalpun]

Hi Sebastian,

On 09.04.2015 21:49, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 09, 2015 at 08:13:22PM +0200, Andreas Cadhalpun wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> True. What I meant is that the tools used by ReproducibleBuilds it see it
> differently :(

I see.

>>> 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?
> 
> Yup, will do together with the removal of faketime.

Thanks.

Best regards,
Andreas