Bug#1135692: dkimpy: please make the build reproducible

[Chris Lamb]

Source: dkimpy
Version: 1.1.8-2
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
dkimpy could not be built reproducibly.

This is because the testsuite bumps the modification time of the
/dkim/tests/ directory to the current time (which later gets clamped
back to SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH), so if the tests are skipped via nocheck,
then this directory will retain its original, upstream timestamp.

Instead of saving upstream's original timestamp and restoring that
later, I've attached a patch to always set the mtime of this directory
to SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH regardless of whether the tests are run or not.

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


Regards,

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--- a/debian/rules	2026-05-04 10:17:20.879056947 -0700
--- b/debian/rules	2026-05-04 10:23:07.588586989 -0700
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@
 override_dh_auto_build:
 
 execute_before_dh_auto_install:
+	touch -d@$(SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH) $(CURDIR)/dkim/tests/
 	python3 $(CURDIR)/setup.py install --install-layout=deb \
 		--root $(CURDIR)/debian/python3-dkim