[pkg-gnupg-maint] Bug#826309: Bug#826309: gnupg2: Please make the build reproducible wrt. varying build hostname

[Werner Koch]

On Sat,  4 Jun 2016 14:08, intrigeri at debian.org said:

> For the record, the hostname is captured in gpgv.exe since upstream
> commit 049b3d9, whose message explains what the change is, but does
> not make its rationale clear.

The hostname helps to triage bugs on Windows.  Sometimes we get bug
reports for GnuPG but it is not clear who build the binary version.  The
information allows an average user to quickly check this.

Although I doubt the value of reproducible builds for Windows; I just
pushed a fix which sets the hostname to "<anon>" by default.  In our
builds we will use --enable-build-timestamp which then inserts it again.


Shalom-Salam,

   Werner

-- 
Die Gedanken sind frei.  Ausnahmen regelt ein Bundesgesetz.
    /* EFH in Erkrath: https://alt-hochdahl.de/haus */