Package: mpb-doc Version: 1.11.1-3 Severity: normal Tags: patch User: reproducible-bui...@lists.alioth.debian.org Usertags: buildpaths usrmerge X-Debbugs-Cc: reproducible-b...@lists.alioth.debian.org
mpb-doc contains example files accompanied by a Makefile. This Makefile contains facts that were true on the system where the package was built but not necessarily true on the system where it will be used, notably the absolute path to the build directory and the absolute paths to grep and mkdir. https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=961747 is an example of a similar bug report in a different package, illustrating the two possible solutions: - either: 1. force the canonical paths to grep, mkdir etc. to be discovered 2. canonicalize the Makefile to omit the absolute build paths - or: - don't ship this Makefile at all, because it is probably not directly useful to an end user: they would have to regenerate it from Makefile.in to build the examples successfully, because Autotools build systems are not typically intended to be portable between directory locations or between machines An implementation of the second approach is attached. Thanks, smcv
>From fe124c7a628027216b29c9cda9ae4a3250b88071 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Simon McVittie <s...@debian.org> Date: Sun, 29 Aug 2021 11:48:45 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] d/rules: Remove generated Makefile from examples Autotools build systems are generally not intended to be portable between directories or between systems, and this Makefile contains absolute paths to the package's build directory and detected absolute paths to tools such as grep, making it non-reproducible. Signed-off-by: Simon McVittie <s...@debian.org> --- debian/rules | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/debian/rules b/debian/rules index b277bfb..fbce572 100755 --- a/debian/rules +++ b/debian/rules @@ -113,3 +113,8 @@ override_dh_auto_test: override_dh_installdocs: dh_installdocs rm -rf debian/mpb-doc/usr/share/doc/mpb-doc/html/mpb-mkdocs-theme/license + +override_dh_installexamples: + dh_installexamples + rm -f debian/mpb-doc/usr/share/doc/mpb*/examples/Makefile + rm -f debian/mpb-doc/usr/share/doc/mpb*/examples/Makefile.gz -- 2.33.0
