Source: lcov Version: 2.5-2 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch User: [email protected] Usertags: timestamps X-Debbugs-Cc: [email protected]
Hi, Whilst working on the Reproducible Builds effort [0], we noticed that lcov could not be built reproducibly. Looks like upstream changed how the manpages were generated, meaning that the manpages became unreproducible again: │ │ │ ├── ./usr/share/man/man1/gendesc.1.gz │ │ │ │ ├── gendesc.1 │ │ │ │ │ @@ -24,15 +24,15 @@ │ │ │ │ │ . RE │ │ │ │ │ .\" indent \\n[an-margin] │ │ │ │ │ .\" old: \\n[rst2man-indent\\n[rst2man-indent-level]] │ │ │ │ │ .nr rst2man-indent-level -1 │ │ │ │ │ .\" new: \\n[rst2man-indent\\n[rst2man-indent-level]] │ │ │ │ │ .in \\n[rst2man-indent\\n[rst2man-indent-level]]u │ │ │ │ │ .. │ │ │ │ │ -.TH "GENDESC" "1" "2027-09-06" "2.5.0" "LCOV" │ │ │ │ │ +.TH "GENDESC" "1" "2026-08-05" "2.5.0" "LCOV" │ │ │ │ │ .SH NAME Patch attached. [0] https://reproducible-builds.org/ Regards, -- ,''`. : :' : Chris Lamb `. `'` [email protected] / chris-lamb.co.uk `-
--- a/debian/patches/reproducible-build.patch 1969-12-31 16:00:00.000000000 -0800 --- b/debian/patches/reproducible-build.patch 2026-08-04 17:04:04.702569602 -0700 @@ -0,0 +1,20 @@ +Description: Make the build reproducible +Author: Chris Lamb <[email protected]> +Last-Update: 2026-08-04 + +--- lcov-2.5.orig/docs/Makefile ++++ lcov-2.5/docs/Makefile +@@ -4,7 +4,12 @@ + # You can set these variables from the command line. + RELEASE ?= 2.5 + TOOL_NAME ?= LCOV +-BUILD_DATE ?= $(shell date +%Y-%m-%d) ++DATE_FMT ?= +%Y-%m-%d ++ifdef SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH ++BUILD_DATE ?= $(shell date -u -d "@$(SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH)" "$(DATE_FMT)" 2>/dev/null || date -u -r "$(SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH)" "$(DATE_FMT)" 2>/dev/null || date -u "$(DATE_FMT)") ++else ++BUILD_DATE ?= $(shell date "$(DATE_FMT)") ++endif + SPHINXOPTS ?= -D release=$(RELEASE) -D version=$(RELEASE) -D today=$(BUILD_DATE) + SPHINXBUILD ?= sphinx-build + SOURCEDIR = . --- a/debian/patches/series 2026-08-04 16:55:57.896796049 -0700 --- b/debian/patches/series 2026-08-04 17:04:03.850333589 -0700 @@ -3,3 +3,4 @@ interp-paths.patch version.patch fix-redirect.patch +reproducible-build.patch
