Bug#947708: libtext-markdown-perl: please make the build reproducible

[Chris Lamb]

Source: libtext-markdown-perl
Version: 1.000031-2
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch
User: reproducible-builds at lists.alioth.debian.org
Usertags: randomness toolchain
X-Debbugs-Cc: reproducible-bugs at lists.alioth.debian.org

Hi,

Whilst working on the Reproducible Builds effort [0] we noticed that
libtext-markdown-perl generates output that is not reproducible.

Specifically it encodes some email addresses using random HTML
entities in an attempt to thwart spammers. A patch is attached that
seeds the random number generation with a deterministic value based on
SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH [1].

(This was accidentally filed against src:markdown in #947608 but there
were other, essentially unrelated, issues there too.)

  [0] https://reproducible-builds.org/
  [1] https://reproducible-builds.org/specs/source-date-epoch/
  [2] https://bugs.debian.org/947608


Regards,

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