[Reproducible-builds] Bug#834160: bam: please make the build reproducible

[Chris Lamb]

Source: bam
Version: 0.4.0-4
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 bam could not be built reproducibly.

Patch attached.

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


Regards,

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--- a/debian/patches/reproducible-build.diff	1970-01-01 01:00:00.000000000 +0100
--- b/debian/patches/reproducible-build.diff	2016-08-12 16:41:37.891216078 +0100
@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+Description: Make the build reproducible
+Author: Chris Lamb <lamby at debian.org>
+Last-Update: 2016-08-12
+
+--- bam-0.4.0.orig/scripts/tinydoc.py
++++ bam-0.4.0/scripts/tinydoc.py
+@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
+ 
+-import re, time
++import re, time, os
+ 
+ class Node:
+ 	def __init__(self, name):
+@@ -167,11 +167,15 @@ class HTMLOutput(Output):
+ 			%s
+ 		''' %(img, self.docinfo.name, self.docinfo.note, self.docinfo.copyright)
+ 	def render_end(self):
++		try:
++			now = time.gmtime(int(os.environ['SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH']))
++		except KeyError:
++			now = time.localtime()
+ 		return '''
+ 			<hr/>
+ 			<small>Generated at %s.</small>
+ 			</body>
+-		''' % (time.asctime())
++		''' % (time.asctime(now))
+ 
+ 	def index_begin(self): return '<h2>Contents</h2><ul>'
+ 	def index_end(self): return '</ul><hr/>'
--- a/debian/patches/series	2016-08-12 16:35:41.058274016 +0100
--- b/debian/patches/series	2016-08-12 16:41:36.759200656 +0100
@@ -2,3 +2,4 @@
 test-error-exit-code.diff
 fix-ftbfs-kfreebsd.diff
 fix-ftbfs-tests-fpic.diff
+reproducible-build.diff