[Reproducible-builds] Bug#764251: socat: please set the build timestamp to a deterministic time

[Jérémy Bobbio]

Source: socat
Version: 1.7.2.4-1
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch
User: reproducible-builds at lists.alioth.debian.org
Usertags: timestamps

Hi!

As part of the “reproducible builds” effort, we have discovered that
socat is using the __DATE__ and __TIME__ C pre-processor macro to record
the time of the build. This prevent socat build to be reproducible.

The attached patch will instead set the value of the `timestamp`
variable to the date of the latest debian/changelog entry. In order to
do so, it will patch the build system to allow the build timestamp to be
externally set through the BUILD_DATE variable.

Once applied, socat can be built reproducibly.

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