Bug#825540: libhdf4: please make the build reproducible

[Sebastiaan Couwenberg]

Control: tags -1 pending

Hi Reiner,

On 05/27/2016 06:08 PM, Reiner Herrmann wrote:
> While working on the "reproducible builds" effort, we have noticed
> that libhdf4 could not be built reproducibly.
> It was actually building reproducibly in the past, but with 4.2.11-1.exp1
> it became unreproducible again.
> The reason is [5ea3196], which included the /usr/lib/libhdf4.settings
> file, which records several data about the build environment (timestamp,
> username, hostname, kernel).
> The file doesn't look very important to me from a user point of view.
> 
> Can you please consider dropping it again?

The hdf5 and netcdf packages also install the .settings files in their
-dev packages, so I'd like to keep it in libhdf4.

I've patched out the settings that make it unreproducible instead.

Kind Regards,

Bas

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