[DRE-maint] Bug#1136425: ruby-otr-activerecord: please make the build reproducible

[Vagrant Cascadian]

user reproducible-builds at lists.alioth.debian.org
usertag 1136425 +nocheck
thanks

On 2026-05-13, Chris Lamb wrote:
> Whilst working on the Reproducible Builds effort [0], we noticed that
> ruby-otr-activerecord could not be built reproducibly.
>
> This is because the testsuite bumps the modification time of the
> directories under the examples/ dir to the current time (which later
> gets clamped back to SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH), so if the tests are skipped
> via nocheck, then this directory will retain its original, upstream
> timestamp.
>
> Instead of saving upstream's original timestamp and restoring that
> later, I've attached a patch to always set the mtime of this directory
> to SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH, regardless of whether the tests are run or not.
>
>
>  [0] https://reproducible-builds.org/
>
>
> Regards,
>
> -- 
>       ,''`.
>      : :'  :     Chris Lamb
>      `. `'`      lamby at debian.org / chris-lamb.co.uk
>        `-
> --- a/debian/rules	2026-05-13 08:59:49.092936380 -0700
> --- b/debian/rules	2026-05-13 09:24:31.303521549 -0700
> @@ -6,5 +6,10 @@
>  %:
>  	dh $@ --buildsystem=ruby --with ruby
>  
> +execute_before_dh_auto_install:
> +	# Running the testsuite adjusts the mtimes of these directories so
> +	# reset them to a fixed time for reproducibility
> +	touch -d@$(SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH) examples/*/
> +
>  override_dh_installchangelogs:
>  	dh_installchangelogs CHANGELOG.md
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