[Reproducible-builds] Bug#831645: ftplib: please make the build reproducible

[Chris Lamb]

Source: ftplib
Version: 3.1-1-9
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch
User: reproducible-builds at lists.alioth.debian.org
Usertags: timestamps
X-Debbugs-Cc: reproducible-builds at lists.alioth.debian.org

Hi,

Whilst working on the "reproducible builds" effort [0], we noticed
that ftplib could not be built reproducibly.

Patch attached.

 [0] https://wiki.debian.org/ReproducibleBuilds


Regards,

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--- a/debian/html2man.py	2016-07-18 09:06:20.927901134 +0200
--- b/debian/html2man.py	2016-07-18 09:12:56.275360755 +0200
@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@
 	self.mtime = time
 
     def prettydate(self):
-	return time.strftime('"%d %B %Y"', time.localtime(self.mtime))
+	return time.strftime('"%Y-%m-%d"', time.gmtime(self.mtime))
 
     def opt_newline(self):
 	if self.need_newline:
@@ -185,7 +185,10 @@
 	outfilename = os.path.join(dirname, convert(filename))
         infile = open(filename, "r")
 	outfile = open(outfilename, "w")
-	timestamp = os.fstat(infile.fileno())[stat.ST_MTIME]
+        try:
+            timestamp = float(os.environ['SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH'])
+        except KeyError:
+            timestamp = os.fstat(infile.fileno())[stat.ST_MTIME]
         receiver = PageWriter(outfile)
         receiver.set_time(timestamp)
         parser = PageParser(receiver)