[Pkg-javascript-devel] Bug#845745: node-rimraf: please make the build reproducible

[Jérémy Lal]

2016-11-26 13:23 GMT+01:00 Chris Lamb <lamby at debian.org>:
> Source: node-rimraf
> Version: 2.5.4-1
> Severity: wishlist
> Tags: patch
> User: reproducible-builds at lists.alioth.debian.org
> Usertags: umask
> X-Debbugs-Cc: reproducible-bugs at lists.alioth.debian.org
>
> Hi,
>
> Whilst working on the Reproducible Builds effort [0], we noticed
> that node-rimraf could not be built reproducibly.
>
> This is due to exluding bin.js from dh_fixperms (to keep it executable)
> which means that the group "write" bit is inherited from the system's
> umask.
>
> Patch attached.

It's a reproductibility anti-pattern, then.
Thank you, and i did that in some other packages recently, i'll try to fix them.

Jérémy