[Pkg-rust-maintainers] Bug#1092917: rust-xh: please make the build reproducible

[Blair Noctis]

Control: forwarded -1 https://github.com/ducaale/xh/pull/402

On Mon, 13 Jan 2025 12:18:24 +0000 "Chris Lamb" <lamby at debian.org> wrote:
> Source: rust-xh
> Version: 0.23.1-2
> Severity: wishlist
> Tags: patch
> User: reproducible-builds at lists.alioth.debian.org
> Usertags: timestamps
> X-Debbugs-Cc: reproducible-bugs at lists.alioth.debian.org
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Whilst working on the Reproducible Builds effort [0], we noticed that
> rust-xh could not be built reproducibly.
> 
> This is because the manual page embeds the current build date.
> 
> The patch attached mangles this date after the file has been generated
> to use SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH. There is an alternative solution that parses
> SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH within Rust itself, but I think that might require
> an additional Rust crate [1].
> 
>  [0] https://reproducible-builds.org/
>  [1] https://reproducible-builds.org/docs/source-date-epoch/#rust

Thanks Chris, I've opened a pull request upstream. A few additional lines, no need for an additional crate ;)

Though the unfinished http stack uploads seem to have caused a bit trouble, so the fix will have to wait a bit.

-- 
Sdrager,
Blair Noctis
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