Bug#908379: bro: please make the build reproducible

[Chris Lamb]

Source: bro
Version: 2.5.4-1
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch
User: reproducible-builds at lists.alioth.debian.org
Usertags: buildpath
X-Debbugs-Cc: reproducible-bugs at lists.alioth.debian.org

Hi,

Whilst working on the Reproducible Builds effort [0], we noticed
that bro could not be built reproducibly.

This is because the .bro files contain the absolute build path. Patch
attached that removes $(CURDIR) from the file.

(I initially tried to make an upstream-friendly patch against the
generation utility itself but I found it difficult and cumbersome to
retain the relevant "leading/path/components/file.bro" whilst removing
the absolute component)

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


Regards,

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--- a/debian/rules	2018-09-09 09:54:09.174792759 +0100
--- b/debian/rules	2018-09-09 12:06:53.941232622 +0100
@@ -18,6 +18,8 @@
 override_dh_install:
 	mkdir -p debian/tmp/etc/bro
 	mv debian/tmp/usr/share/bro/site debian/tmp/etc/bro/site
+	find debian/tmp -type f -name '*.bro' -print0 | \
+		xargs -0r sed -i -e 's at from $(CURDIR)/@from @g'
 	dh_install --fail-missing
 
 override_dh_gencontrol: