Debian Bug report logs - #1000944
apbs: reproducible builds: Timestamps and timing information in io.mc examples

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Vagrant Cascadian <vagrant@reproducible-builds.org>

To: submit@bugs.debian.org

Subject: apbs: reproducible builds: Timestamps and timing information in io.mc examples

Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2021 18:35:28 -0800

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Source: apbs
Severity: normal
Tags: patch
User: reproducible-builds@lists.alioth.debian.org
Usertags: timestamps
X-Debbugs-Cc: reproducible-bugs@lists.alioth.debian.org

Various example io.mc files include timestamps and timing information:

  https://tests.reproducible-builds.org/debian/rb-pkg/bookworm/amd64/diffoscope-results/apbs.html

  /usr/share/apbs/examples/FKBP/io.mc

  #·Creation·Date·and·Time:··Mon·Nov·29·17:45:07·2021
  vs.
  #·Creation·Date·and·Time:··Tue·Jan··3·05:37:35·2023

  Vacc_SASA:·Time·elapsed:·1.315417
  vs.
  Vacc_SASA:·Time·elapsed:·1.368298

The attached patch fixes this by removing these files from debian/rules
in the dh_auto_install override.

If it is not appropriate to remove the io.mc files, another approach
might be to sanitize out all the timestamps and timing information,
although this would seem likely to be a game of whack-a-mole over time.

With this patch applied, apbs should build reproducibly on
tests.reproducible-builds.org once it migrates to the the
testing/bookworm suite, although unstable and experimental also vary
build paths which trigger other issues.


Thanks for maintaining apbs!


live well,
  vagrant

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From 342fc07647699e1987dd8d012f413c4d90898fbd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Vagrant Cascadian <vagrant@reproducible-builds.org>
Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2021 02:23:08 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] debian/rules: Remove io.mc test suite logs from examples.

These files include timestamps and precise timing information which
will almost always vary between two builds.

https://reproducible-builds.org/docs/timestamps/
---
 debian/rules | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/debian/rules b/debian/rules
index bb4201a..3409962 100755
--- a/debian/rules
+++ b/debian/rules
@@ -30,6 +30,9 @@ override_dh_auto_build:
 
 override_dh_auto_install:
 	dh_auto_install --sourcedir=apbs --destdir=$(CURDIR)/debian/tmp/
+	# Remove test suite log files, which include timing
+	# information which cause reproducibility issues
+	find debian/tmp/ -name io.mc -delete -print
 
 override_dh_auto_clean:
 	dh_auto_clean --sourcedir=apbs
-- 
2.34.1

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Message #10 received at 1000944-done@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Drew Parsons <dparsons@debian.org>

To: 1000944-done@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#1000944: apbs: reproducible builds: Timestamps and timing information in io.mc examples

Date: Wed, 01 Jun 2022 17:40:12 +0200

Control: fixed 1000944 3.4.1-1

io.mc is no longer shipped with apbs 3.4.1 so we can close this bug now.

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