Bug#1141506: lightproof: please make the build reproducible

Chris Lamb lamby at debian.org
Sun Jul 5 17:10:37 BST 2026


Source: lightproof
Version: 1.6+git20190911.c299ddd-1
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch
User: reproducible-builds at lists.alioth.debian.org
Usertags: timezone
X-Debbugs-Cc: reproducible-bugs at lists.alioth.debian.org

Hi,

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

This is because unzip(1) needs to called with TZ=UTC or it will not
extract the .zip file with reproducible timestamps.

Patch attached.

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


Regards,

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-------------- next part --------------
--- a/debian/rules	2026-07-05 08:24:36.949511420 -0700
--- b/debian/rules	2026-07-05 08:26:05.443906779 -0700
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@
 		dir=`echo $$oxt | cut -d- -f1`; \
 		mkdir -p $(CURDIR)/debian/$$pkg/usr/lib/libreoffice/share/extensions/$$dir && \
 		cd $(CURDIR)/debian/$$pkg/usr/lib/libreoffice/share/extensions/$$dir && \
-			unzip -o $(CURDIR)/$$oxt; \
+			TZ=UTC unzip -o $(CURDIR)/$$oxt; \
 	done
 
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