Bug#950606: gdb-source: generated tarball includes system metadata

[Vagrant Cascadian]

Package: gdb-source
Severity: normal
Tags: patch
User: reproducible-builds at lists.alioth.debian.org
Usertags: timestamps umask username
X-Debbugs-Cc: reproducible-bugs at lists.alioth.debian.org

The tarball produced in gdb-source binary package includes metadata from
the filesystem, including umask, timestamps, and potentially username,
group, and sort order of the files in the tarball.

The attached patch passes arguments to tar to ensure reproducible builds
of this package.

There are several outstanding reproducibility issues with the other
packages produced by gdb, but please consider applying this to improve
the signal to noise ratio.


Thanks for maintaining gdb!


live well,
  vagrant
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