[pkg-lynx-maint] Bug#983209: lynx: differences in documentation when built in parallel

[Vagrant Cascadian]

Source: lynx
Severity: normal
Tags: patch
User: reproducible-builds at lists.alioth.debian.org
Usertags: randomness
X-Debbugs-Cc: reproducible-bugs at lists.alioth.debian.org

The lynx documentation has many differences between two builds:

  https://tests.reproducible-builds.org/debian/rb-pkg/bullseye/amd64/diffoscope-results/lynx.html

  /usr/share/doc/lynx-common/lynx_help/body.html.gz
  
In one of the builds, there has several occurrences of:

  Support·for·this·setting·was·disabled·at·compile-time.	 


All of the documentation differences disappeared for me when disabling
parallelism in the build (and fixing the usrmerge issue reported in
another bug). The attached patch passes --no-parallel to dh in
debian/rules to accomplish this.

I do not know weather this is actually a more serious issue where
various features are actually disabled between the two builds or only a
documentation difference.


This does not resolve all reproducibility issues (e.g. when /bin/sh
points to bash), but should reduce some of the noise when comparing the
differences.


live well,
  vagrant
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