[Reproducible-builds] Bug#833176: trafficserver: please make the build reproducible

[Reiner Herrmann]

Source: trafficserver
Version: 6.1.1-1
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch upstream
User: reproducible-builds at lists.alioth.debian.org
Usertags: umask username hostname
X-Debbugs-Cc: reproducible-builds at lists.alioth.debian.org

Hi!

While working on the "reproducible builds" effort [1], we have noticed
that trafficserver could not be built reproducibly.
It embeds the build username/groupname/hostname into the binary and has
files in /etc varying with different umasks.

The attached patch uses deterministic values for user/group/hostname and
let's dh_fixperms normalize the permissions in /etc/trafficserver.
I didn't find a reason why it was excluded from dh_fixperms, but please
check if removing it from the exclude list is really okay.

Regards,
 Reiner

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