Bug#960607: python-watcherclient: please make the build reproducible

[Chris Lamb]

Source: python-watcherclient
Version: 3.0.0-2
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch
User: reproducible-builds at lists.alioth.debian.org
Usertags: buildpath
X-Debbugs-Cc: reproducible-bugs at lists.alioth.debian.org

Hi,

Whilst working on the Reproducible Builds effort [0] we noticed that
python-watcherclient could not be built reproducibly.

This is because the documentation generates automatic documentation for the "main()" entrypoint method's arguments, one of which is "sys.argv". During document generation this results in documentation examples like:

   def main(argv=['-b', 'html', 'doc/source', '«ABSOLUTE_BUILD_DIR»/debian/python-watcherclient-doc/usr/share/doc/python-watcherclient-doc/html']):

… etc. Patch attached that sets "None" instead but retains the existing
fallback logic.

 [0] https://reproducible-builds.org/


Regards,

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