[Reproducible-builds] Doxygen issue with reproducible builds

[marivalen]

Hi,

On 02/16/2015 02:43 PM, marivalen wrote:
> Furthermore the Doxyfile configuration file embedded in each package
> using doxygen is often copied from the upstream defaults and thus
> enables HTML_TIMESTAMP. The following query on codesearch.d.n shows that
> 277 source packages are affected:
> http://codesearch.debian.net/results/HTML_TIMESTAMP%20%2B%3D%20YES%20path%3ADoxyfile/page_0
>
>
> So no matter whether my patch to doxygen is applied or not, these 277
> source packages will either need individual fixes or a change to doxygen
> which allows to ignore the setting of HTML_TIMESTAMP in Doxyfile. I can
> implement this but this again has to be discussed with the Debian
> maintainers and doxygen upstream.

As explained in my last email any reasonable fix (the unreasonable being 
letting doxygen in Debian never output timestamps) requires patching the 
200+ source packages affected by the issue individually.

Thus, if there is no objection I will proceed with filing bugs with 
patches against the affected source packages and let them be blocked by 
bug #778490 if the source package uses Latex.

Cheers, akira