Bug#1141195: ledger2beancount: please make the build reproducible

Jochen Sprickerhof jspricke at debian.org
Wed Jul 1 07:19:32 BST 2026


Source: ledger2beancount
Version: 2.7-2
Severity: normal
Tags: patch
X-Debbugs-Cc: reproducible-bugs at lists.alioth.debian.org
User: reproducible-builds at lists.alioth.debian.org
Usertags: timestamps

Hi Jelmer,

Whilst working on the Reproducible Builds effort [0], we noticed that
ledger2beancount could not be built reproducibly:

https://reproduce.debian.net/all/forky.html#ledger2beancount

This is because the LaTeX-based documentation includes the current
build date. This can be specified to use SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH through the
LaTeX-specific FORCE_SOURCE_DATE environment variable.

Adding

export FORCE_SOURCE_DATE = 1

at the top of debian/rules makes the package reproducible

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

Cheers Jochen



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