Bug#972336: ora2pg: please make the build reproducible

[Chris Lamb]

Source: ora2pg
Version: 21.0-1
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch
User: reproducible-builds at lists.alioth.debian.org
Usertags: randomness
X-Debbugs-Cc: reproducible-bugs at lists.alioth.debian.org

Hi,

Whilst working on the Reproducible Builds effort [0] we noticed that
ora2pg could not be built reproducibly.

This is because it generates a comment in a config file using '$$' in
an attempt to get a literal '$' character. But '$$' inserts the
process PID (!) of the build process into the file instead.

This PID is, of course, non-deterministic, resulting in a reproducible
build.

Patch attached that uses '\$' instead.

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


Regards,

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