[Pkg-crosswire-devel] Bug#884047: Bug#884047: bibledit: please make the build reproducible

[Teus Benschop]

Thank you for that, I will look into this, and see that such build-files
won't make it to the data directory, as it indeed should not. Thanks again
for noticing this!

On Sun, 10 Dec 2017 at 21:33 Chris Lamb <lamby at debian.org> wrote:

> Source: bibledit
> Version: 5.0.331-1
> Severity: wishlist
> Tags: patch
> User: reproducible-builds at lists.alioth.debian.org
> Usertags: timestamps
> X-Debbugs-Cc: reproducible-bugs at lists.alioth.debian.org
>
> Hi,
>
> Whilst working on the Reproducible Builds effort [0], we noticed
> that bibledit could not be built reproducibly.
>
> This is because it uselessly ships config.log etc. in the binary
> packages which include all sorts of environment-specific data.
>
> Patch attached that simply doesn't install these files... BUT it looks
> like there is a whole bunch of cruft in the -data package anyway,
> essentially including the build-directory itself (with Makefile.am etc.
> etc.)
>
> In other words, only specifying the stuff bibledit really needs in
> bibledit-data.install would be the superior solution. :)
>
>  [0] https://reproducible-builds.org/
>
>
> Regards,
>
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