Bug#779223: box2d: please make the build reproducible

[marivalen]

Hi,

On 03/02/2015 07:41 PM, Markus Koschany wrote:
> I would like to know how other maintainers think about this issue and
> wait until it is clear whether this issue will be fixed in Debian's
> doxygen package or not. If it turns out that the project favors the
> "patch-all-affected-packages" approach, then this patch can be quickly
> applied. But I still have my doubts about the efficiency of this approach.
>

I talked to helmut as a doxygen maintainer on IRC and he pointed out the 
following:

  - dh_doxygen only runs after the build is completed and thus has no
    way to influence the run of doxygen

  - since it is impossible to determine the configuration file used by
    doxygen during the build, the only working solution in practice
    would be to move /usr/bin/doxygen to /usr/bin/doxygen.real and let
    the former be a thin wrapper around the latter which detects using
    environment variable when a package build is in progress and if so
    determines the used configuration file and changes its value of
    HTML_TIMESTAMP to NO before passing it on to doxygen.real

It is unlikely that such a fragile and hacky workaround will be included 
in dh_doxygen.

Cheers, akira