Bug#1034740: boost1.74: reproducible builds: build date and time embedded in .html documentation

[Vagrant Cascadian]

Source: boost1.74
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 dates and timestamps are embedded in various .html
documentation:

  https://tests.reproducible-builds.org/debian/rb-pkg/bookworm/amd64/diffoscope-results/boost1.74.html

  /usr/share/doc/libboost1.74-doc/doc/html/accumulators.html

  <td·align="left"><p><small>Last·revised:·May·17,·2024·at·23:22:24·GMT</small></p></td>
  vs.
  <td·align="left"><p><small>Last·revised:·April·15,·2023·at·19:43:52·GMT</small></p></td>

The attached patch fixes this by removing the date and timestamp lines
from several files, and replacing documentations examples for the use of
__TIME__ and __DATE__ with a fixed time and date.

According to my local tests, with this patch applied, boost1.74 should
build reproducibly on tests.reproducible-builds.org once it migrates to
testing! There are some outstanding issues (e.g. build paths) that are
only tested on unstable and experimental.


Thanks for maintaining boost1.74!


live well,
  vagrant
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