[Pkg-openldap-devel] Bug#833179: Bug#833179: openldap: please make the build reproducible (username, hostname, buildpath)

[Ryan Tandy]

Control: tag -1 pending

Hello,

On Mon, Aug 01, 2016 at 06:51:08PM +0000, Daniel Shahaf wrote:
>While working on the “reproducible builds” effort [1], we have noticed
>that openldap could not be built reproducibly [2].
>
>The attached patch removes variable information from the build.

Thank you for working on making Debian reproducible, and for submitting 
this patch. Unfortunately it doesn't seem to work exactly as intended, 
probably because mkversion is not invoked from the root of the build 
tree.

For now I committed an alternate patch just setting WHOWHERE to a static 
string, which should make the build reproducible as desired. The rest 
can be revisited later.

thanks,
Ryan