Bug#828683: mc: please make the build reproducible

[Vagrant Cascadian]

On 2022-12-22, Vagrant Cascadian wrote:
> On 2022-10-06, Vagrant Cascadian wrote:
>> The attached alternate implements this for mc by touching the potential
>> files before running configure with a consistent timestamp.
>>
>> According to my local tests, applying this patch should make mc build
>> reproducibly once it lands in testing/bookworm! There are outstanding
>> build path issues tested in unstable and experimental.
> ...
>> From 4e69587954d29ec6bfc7d85b4b618724b16b840e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
>> From: Vagrant Cascadian <vagrant at reproducible-builds.org>
>> Date: Thu, 6 Oct 2022 19:25:11 +0000
>> Subject: [PATCH 5/5] debian/rules: Ensure consistent timestamp on manpages.
>>
>> The upstream build system uses the file modification time of the .in
>> file for the manpage to embed into the generatated manpage, but if
>> debian/patches modify the .in files, the timestamp is updated,
>> resulting in builds performed in different months or years embedding a
>> different date.
>> ---
>>  debian/rules | 2 ++
>>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/debian/rules b/debian/rules
>> index c633a73..bf8eb5e 100755
>> --- a/debian/rules
>> +++ b/debian/rules
>> @@ -25,6 +25,8 @@ override_dh_autoreconf:
>>  # AWK="awk" is inheritance of 4.7.* series, see http://bugs.debian.org/499723
>>  # might be still necessary for extfs scripts
>>  override_dh_auto_configure:
>> +	# Ensure reproducible timestamp on manpages
>> +	touch -d@$(SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH) doc/man/*.1.in doc/man/*/*.1.in
>>  	dh_auto_configure -- AWK="awk" X11_WWW="x-www-browser" \
>>  		--libexecdir='/usr/lib' \
>>  		--with-x \
>> -- 
>> 2.37.2
>
> I Intend to NMU with this patch on the 29th (with a 10-day delay) unless
> I hear otherwise.

A little behind schedule, and a little more conservative patch (only
touching the currently patched mcedit manpage)...

Uploaded NMU to DELAYED/10:

diff -Nru mc-4.8.28/debian/changelog mc-4.8.28/debian/changelog
--- mc-4.8.28/debian/changelog	2022-04-02 15:10:15.000000000 -0700
+++ mc-4.8.28/debian/changelog	2023-01-10 09:50:36.000000000 -0800
@@ -1,3 +1,11 @@
+mc (3:4.8.28-1.1) unstable; urgency=medium
+
+  * Non-maintainer upload.
+  * debian/rules: Ensure consistent timestamp on mcedit manpage.
+    (Closes: #828683)
+
+ -- Vagrant Cascadian <vagrant at reproducible-builds.org>  Tue, 10 Jan 2023 09:50:36 -0800
+
 mc (3:4.8.28-1) unstable; urgency=medium
 
   * New upstream release.
diff -Nru mc-4.8.28/debian/rules mc-4.8.28/debian/rules
--- mc-4.8.28/debian/rules	2018-06-05 21:11:33.000000000 -0700
+++ mc-4.8.28/debian/rules	2023-01-10 09:49:58.000000000 -0800
@@ -25,6 +25,9 @@
 # AWK="awk" is inheritance of 4.7.* series, see http://bugs.debian.org/499723
 # might be still necessary for extfs scripts
 override_dh_auto_configure:
+	# Ensure reproducible timestamp on mcedit manpage, which is
+	# patched from debian/patches
+	touch -d@$(SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH) doc/man/mcedit.1.in
 	dh_auto_configure -- AWK="awk" X11_WWW="x-www-browser" \
 		--libexecdir='/usr/lib' \
 		--with-x \
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