Bug#828683: mc: please make the build reproducible

[Vagrant Cascadian]

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.


live well,
  vagrant
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