[Reproducible-builds] Doxygen issue with reproducible builds

[marivalen]

Hi,
On 02/16/2015 02:43 PM, marivalen wrote:
> Hi,
> [...]
> 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.

I made an error in my earlier analysis. The 277 packages found by 
codesearch.d.n are not 277 out of the 297 packages that are tagged with 
timestamps_in_documentation_generated_by_doxygen. In fact 154 of these 
277 source packages that contain HTML_TIMESTAMP = YES are actually 
marked as being reproducible by jenkins. Only 83 of the 277 packages 
intersect with the 297 packages which are tagged with 
timestamps_in_documentation_generated_by_doxygen.

70% of the 297 packages tagged with 
timestamps_in_documentation_generated_by_doxygen do not contain the 
string HMTL_TIMESTAMP at all thus they should be influenced by the 
default value for HTML_TIMESTAMP set in doxygen.

I uploaded a version of doxygen to the experimental reproducible builds 
toolchain repository which changes the default value of HTML_TIMESTAMP 
from YES to NO. Could you please reschedule the following 343 packages 
which  build-depend on doxygen and fail to build reproducibly:

https://mister-muffin.de/p/2NL4.txt

I also made a bug report to upstream about changing the default (see 
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=745439 ).

Cheers, akira