Bug#996674: libminidns-java: please make the build reproducible

[tony mancill]

Hi Chris,

On Sun, Oct 17, 2021 at 08:57:30AM +0100, Chris Lamb wrote:
> Source: libminidns-java
> Version: 1.0.0-1
> Severity: wishlist
> Tags: patch
> User: reproducible-builds at lists.alioth.debian.org
> Usertags: timestamps
> X-Debbugs-Cc: reproducible-bugs at lists.alioth.debian.org
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Whilst working on the Reproducible Builds effort [0] we noticed that
> libminidns-java could not be built reproducibly.
> 
> This is because it generates a .jar file that contains an
> "org.minidns/version" file that can look like this:
> 
>     1.0.0 (non git build 2021-10-17)
> 
> That is, it includes the current build date. A patch is attached that
> makes it look like this:
> 
>     1.0.0 (Debian)
> 
>  [0] https://reproducible-builds.org/

Thank you for the bug report and the patch.  Sunil had previously
committed a very similar patch to the packaging repo to address the
issue with the reproducible build but it hadn't been uploaded yet.  I
have done that now.  (And apologies for the duplicated efforts.)

Cheers,
tony
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