[Reproducible-builds] Bug#797611: dh-strip-nondeterminism: Please provide a standalone strip-nondeterminism binary

[Mattia Rizzolo]

On Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 11:02:20PM +0200, Chris Lamb wrote:
> Please provide a non-standalone binary that will do the same things that
> calling dh_strip_nondeterminism would do, but I can point it at a
> specific file or directory and it will normalise it, eg.
> 
>   $ /usr/bin/strip-nondeterminism has-timestamps.png
> 
> I would find this useful for testing dh-strip-nondeterminism itself and
> also for testing reproducible fixes.

Sounds like exactly what currently is in the binary package named
strip-nondeterminism.
There is exactly a file /usr/bin/strip-nondeterminism that behaves
exactly as you described :)

Does this satisfy you? :)

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