[Reproducible-builds] Bug#803482: ncurses: please make the build reproducible, take two

[Esa Peuha]

On Fri, Oct 30, 2015 at 10:44 PM, Sven Joachim <svenjoac at gmx.de> wrote:
> Certainly aclocal.m4 is _not_ a generated file in ncurses,

Not in the Debian package, but upstream must be generating it from
configure.in by running aclocal.

> Possible
> solutions are to run dh_strip_nondeterminism on the -dbg packages, or to
> just remove the static debug libraries (I don't think they actually
> work anyway, see #556378 for reasons).

I don't know if the static debug libraries work or not (wouldn't the
latter mean that #556378 isn't really fixed?), but I think
dh_strip_nondeterminism is probably the best option here.