[Reproducible-builds] Bug#803482: ncurses: please make the build reproducible, take two

[Sven Joachim]

On 2015-10-31 10:48 +0100, Esa Peuha wrote:

> On Fri, Oct 30, 2015 at 10:44 PM, Sven Joachim <svenjoac at gmx.de> wrote:
>> Certainly aclocal.m4 is _not_ a generated file in ncurses,
>
> Not in the Debian package, but upstream must be generating it from
> configure.in by running aclocal.

I don't think so.

>> Possible
>> solutions are to run dh_strip_nondeterminism on the -dbg packages, or to
>> just remove the static debug libraries (I don't think they actually
>> work anyway, see #556378 for reasons).
>
> I don't know if the static debug libraries work or not (wouldn't the
> latter mean that #556378 isn't really fixed?), but I think
> dh_strip_nondeterminism is probably the best option here.

I've tested linking a program with "-lncurses_g -ltinfo_g" today, and it
didn't work, so my conclusion is that nobody has been using the static
debug libraries for ages.  Hence I'm going to remove them, unless
somebody comes up with a fix to the build system that removes the
necessity of building the static libraries separately.

Cheers,
       Sven