[Pkg-tigervnc-devel] Bug#865753: tigervnc: please make the build reproducible

[Chris Lamb]

Source: tigervnc
Version: 1.7.0+dfsg-7
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 tigervnc could not be built reproducibly due to including the
build timestamp.

Patch attached.

 [0] https://reproducible-builds.org/


Regards,

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--- a/debian/rules	2017-06-24 14:10:27.688210888 +0100
--- b/debian/rules	2017-06-24 14:35:45.814943472 +0100
@@ -54,6 +54,7 @@
 DEB_CMAKE_EXTRA_FLAGS += -DCMAKE_CXX_FLAGS:STRING="$(CPPFLAGS) $(CXXFLAGS) -fPIC"
 DEB_CMAKE_EXTRA_FLAGS += -DCMAKE_EXE_LINKER_FLAGS="$(LDFLAGS)"
 DEB_CMAKE_EXTRA_FLAGS += -DCMAKE_SHARED_LINKER_FLAGS="$(LDFLAGS)"
+DEB_CMAKE_EXTRA_FLAGS += -DBUILD_TIMESTAMP="$(shell dpkg-parsechangelog -SDate | date -u -f- '+%Y-%m-%d %H:%M')"
 
 # This is stolen from xorg-server/debian/xsfbs/xsfbs.mk
 # Determine (source) package name from Debian changelog.