On 2026-06-19, Jochen Sprickerhof wrote: > Whilst working on the Reproducible Builds effort [0], we noticed that > sdpb could not be built reproducibly. > > This is because the LaTeX-based documentation includes the current > build date. This can be specified to use SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH through the > LaTeX-specific FORCE_SOURCE_DATE environment variable.
(not technically LaTeX-specific :)
> Adding
>
> export FORCE_SOURCE_DATE=1
>
> at the top of debian/rules makes the package reproducible
I can confirm this fix is still needed and would like to propose the
following patch for an NMU in the coming weeks:
diff --git a/debian/rules b/debian/rules
index a472ea3..10f80aa 100755
--- a/debian/rules
+++ b/debian/rules
@@ -2,6 +2,8 @@
include /usr/share/dpkg/pkg-info.mk
+export FORCE_SOURCE_DATE=1
+
%:
dh $@
Are there any outstanding concerns from the maintainers?
live well,
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