Bug#1126038: hovercraft: please make the build reproducible

[Chris Lamb]

Source: hovercraft
Version: 2.7-11
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch
User: reproducible-builds at lists.alioth.debian.org
Usertags: nocheck
X-Debbugs-Cc: reproducible-bugs at lists.alioth.debian.org

Hi,

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

This is because to run the tests, debian/rules copies some tests into
position; however, it does not delete them afterwards and they then
end up in the binary package.

This means that if the tests are skipped (ie. via "nocheck"), then the
package will have different contents.

Patch attached that removes these (copies of the) tests after running
them.


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


Regards,

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--- a/debian/rules	2026-01-20 11:01:12.493372787 -0800
--- b/debian/rules	2026-01-20 11:04:55.382387508 -0800
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
 export PYBUILD_NAME=hovercraft
 export PYBUILD_INSTALL_ARGS=--install-scripts=/usr/share/hovercraft --install-lib=/usr/share/hovercraft
 export PYBUILD_BEFORE_TEST=cp -r {dir}/tests/ {build_dir}/
+export PYBUILD_AFTER_TEST=rm -rf {build_dir}/tests/
 export PYBUILD_TEST_ARGS=tests/test_*.py
 
 DEBDATE := $(shell dpkg-parsechangelog -Sdate | date -u +%F -f -)