Bug#1017372: plymouth: reproducible builds: year and week embedded in .pc files

[Vagrant Cascadian]

Source: plymouth
Severity: normal
Tags: patch
User: reproducible-builds at lists.alioth.debian.org
Usertags: timestamps
X-Debbugs-Cc: reproducible-bugs at lists.alioth.debian.org

The build year and week of year is embedded in several .pc files:

  https://tests.reproducible-builds.org/debian/rb-pkg/bookworm/amd64/diffoscope-results/plymouth.html

  /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/pkgconfig/ply-boot-client.pc

  Version:·22.32.
  vs.
  Version:·23.37.

This is because configure.ac sets the VERSION and PACKAGE_VERSION
variables based on the date and available git information. The attached
patch fixes this by using the version from debian/changelog.

If only the upstream version is preferred, then simply appending a sed
call could also be used:

  dpkg-parsechangelog --show-field Version | sed -e 's,-.*,,g'


With this patch applied, plymouth should build reproducibly on
tests.reproducible-builds.org!


Thanks for maintaining plymouth!


live well,
  vagrant
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