Simon Richter <s...@debian.org> writes: > On 1/16/25 01:43, Sam Hartman wrote:
>> For a while we just built the man pages but if any of the docbook tools >> changed between one arch build and another, we'd end up with m-a >> uninstallable packages. > Can this be fixed by removing the "Generator:" comment in the generated > manpage, and possibly clamping the included date to SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH? There are various things one can do to try to make the output of a man page generator like that more consistent, but they don't fix the problem, just reduce its frequency, unless Debian sets up to do a fully reproducible build with pinned versions of everything (which I don't think we want to do). Otherwise, the problem is that the documentation generation tools may have changed versions, and therefore changed output in a way that's not really avoidable, between the time the source package was uploaded and built and the time a binNMU was scheduled for one of the architectures. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
