Bug#784335: libapache2-mod-perl2: please make the package build reproducible

[Niko Tyni]

On Tue, May 05, 2015 at 04:22:02PM +0200, Jérémy Bobbio wrote:
> Source: libapache2-mod-perl2
> Version: 2.0.9~1624218-2
> Severity: wishlist
> Tags: patch
> User: reproducible-builds at lists.alioth.debian.org
> Usertags: randomness
 
> While working on the “reproducible builds” effort [1], we have noticed
> that libapache2-mod-perl2 could not be built reproducibly.
> 
> The attached patch deactivate hash key randomization when running
> configure in order to have the same code generated accross builds.
> Once applied, libapache2-mod-perl2 can be built reproducibly in our
> current experimental framework.

Upstream recently added lots of sort calls and the like to the build
process to fix this. I've just uploaded 2.0.9-RC1 containing those to sid.
Let's see if that's enough.

 https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=102902

 http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=1670713
 http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=1670723

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Niko Tyni   ntyni at debian.org