[Reproducible-builds] [debhelper-devel] Bug#782879 + Bug#782878: lib{test-log4perl, scalar-defer}-perl: please make the build reproducible

[gregor herrmann]

On Sun, 19 Apr 2015 14:03:44 +0200, Axel Beckert wrote:

> Jelmer Vernooij wrote:

> > +# Set man page timestamp to last package change time.
> > +BUILD_DATE = $(shell dpkg-parsechangelog -S Date)
> > +POD_MAN_DATE = $(shell date -u +"%Y-%m-%d" --date="$(BUILD_DATE)")
> > +export POD_MAN_DATE

> But isn't this something which should be done doing once and properly
> in the build system (e.g. in dh_auto_build), like setting all the file
> time stamps to that date?

Right, that was my idea as well.
Adding boilerplate to thousands of packages is neither technically
appealing nor manageable.

I vaguely remember reading something about POD_MAN_DATE recently
(debian-perl at ldo? some perl bug report?), maybe someone else
remembers ...

But yes, debhelper would be an obvious place to do this.


Cheers,
gregor

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