Bug#941714: bst-external: please make the build reproducible

[Chris Lamb]

Source: bst-external
Version: 0.18.0-1
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch
User: reproducible-builds at lists.alioth.debian.org
Usertags: randomness
X-Debbugs-Cc: reproducible-bugs at lists.alioth.debian.org

Hi,

Whilst working on the Reproducible Builds effort [0] we noticed
that bst-external could not be built reproducibly.

This is because it installs a non-deterministic .coverage file
in the binary package.

Patch attached. FYI this can be flagged by Lintian [1].  :)

 [0] https://reproducible-builds.org/
 [1] https://lintian.debian.org/tags/package-contains-python-coverage-file.html


Regards,

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