Bug#966657: json-c: please make the build reproducible

[Chris Lamb]

Source: json-c
Version: 0.15-1
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
json-c could not be built reproducibly.

This is because it used the full, absolute path name as an (sanitised)
input to a filename, resulting in the binary package containing

  /usr/share/doc/libjson-c-dev/html/md__build_1st_json-c-0_815_issues_closed_for_0_813.html
                                        ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
or

  /usr/share/doc/libjson-c-dev/html/md__build_2_json-c-0_815_2nd_issues_closed_for_0_813.html
                                        ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

(etc. etc.)


Patch attached.

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


Regards,

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