Bug#953105: gtk-update-icon-cache does not produce reproducible results on 32-bit architectures

[Daniel Kahn Gillmor]

Package: gtk-update-icon-cache
Version: 3.24.14-1
Control: affects -1 balsa
User: reproducible-builds at lists.alioth.debian.org
Usertags: toolchain
X-Debbugs-Cc: reproducible-bugs at lists.alioth.debian.org

The balsa package builds reproducibly on 64-bit architectures arm64 and
amd64.  But it fails to do so on the 32-bit architectures i386 and
armhf:

https://tests.reproducible-builds.org/debian/rb-pkg/unstable/i386/diffoscope-results/balsa.html
https://tests.reproducible-builds.org/debian/rb-pkg/unstable/armhf/diffoscope-results/balsa.html

The only differences are in the /usr/share/balsa/icon-theme.cache file,
which i believe is generated during build by gtk-update-icon-cache.

It seems possible that we could fix this problem in the balsa package by
not shipping an icon cache at all, of course (and maybe running
update-icon-caches in the postinst?  though i'd like to avoid
introducing a postinst script if we don't need to).

But it seems odd that the 32-bit architectures would produce
unreproducible caches when the 64-bit version is reproducible.

               -dkg
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