[rrdtool-maint] multi-arch:same failures when bin-nmus changelog dates are not the same

Wookey wookey at wookware.org
Thu Mar 29 15:41:50 UTC 2018


On 2018-03-29 14:41 +0200, Jean-Michel Vourgère wrote:
> Hello
> 
> My package rrdtool [1] got some multi-arch failures since last bin-nmu.
> 
> The problem is that pod2man uses the changelog date to generate the man 
> footer, and that date is no longer the same on all architectures !

Don't do that. It's a reproducibility failure as well as breaking
multi-arch co-installability.
 
> Please advise how to proceed!

I'm surprised the reproducibility people have not nobbled pod2man to
stop this behaviour already. Is there a bg about it somewhere?

Wookey
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