[Reproducible-builds] Bug#783882: jodconverter: please make the build reproducible

[Jérémy Bobbio]

Mattia Rizzolo:
> [removing the bug from the recipients list...]
> 
> On Fri, May 1, 2015 at 1:36 PM, Reiner Herrmann <reiner at reiner-h.de> wrote:
> > On 05/01/2015 11:30 AM, Holger Levsen wrote:
> >> That said, according to
> >> https://wiki.debian.org/ReproducibleBuilds/TimestampsInDocumentationGeneratedByJavadoc
> >> strip-nondeterminism should work around the issue too, anyone got an idea why
> >> this doesnt happen?
> >
> > jodconverter uses neither dh, nor cdbs, so strip-nondeterminism is not called.
> 
> you said you think not many packages call javadoc directly, and
> javahelper now passes -notimestamps. Do we know how many affected
> packages strip-nondeterminism fixes? maybe is the case to remove that
> code from strip-nondeterminism and fix the remaining packages?

I don't think that's a good idea. We do want strip-nondeterminism
to benefit as many projects as possible and not only Debian.

But we should make sure that running strip-nondeterminism on files that
are already correct is a no-op.

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