Bug#1017073: python-suntime: reproducible builds: Timestamps recorded for all packaged files

[James Addison]

Source: python-suntime
Followup-For: Bug #1017073
X-Debbugs-Cc: reproducible-bugs at lists.alioth.debian.org

Hi vagrant,

>From some local builds here, you may have been onto something when you noticed
the formatting inconsistency in the debian/changelog file.

When I try building python-suntime from source locally, the locale exports in
the patch *don't* seem to fix the problem; the mtimes of the debian-binary and
control.tar.xz files in the output deb file continue to vary during each build.

But: after correcting the most recent changelog line, the file mtimes become
stable.

Note: in addition to the formatting issue, the timestamps in the changelog file
are out-of-order -- the most recent changelog has a timestamp that is older
than the second-most-recent entry.

This may have happened during commit below, which was likely intended to update
the most-recent entry -- but did not, perhaps due to the formatting problem:

https://salsa.debian.org/python-team/packages/python-suntime/-/commit/af7c127cf54ba10d530024319979ccb4e268c5d0

Thanks,
James