Re: Bug#1004557: man-db: please make index.db installations reproducible

2022-01-31 Thread Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues
Quoting Colin Watson (2022-01-31 03:28:07) > > But if that's the wrong approach, lets think of the alternative: making > > sure that the mtimes of manual pages is reproducible. If I use gdbm_dump on > > the index.db of two different chroots, then it looks like the following > > manual pages have di

Re: Bug#1004557: man-db: please make index.db installations reproducible

2022-01-31 Thread Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues
Quoting Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues (2022-01-31 22:23:53) > I talked with Guillem about the possibility of changing update-alternatives > to produce reproducible mtimes. I'm adding debian-dpkg@lists.debian.org to > discuss having a reproducible index.db by changing unattended-upgrades. > > Re