Debian Bug report logs - #796130
man2html: please use $SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH to produce reproducible output

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

From: Maria Valentina Marin <marivalenm@gmail.com>

To: submit@bugs.debian.org

Subject: man2html: please use $SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH to produce reproducible output

Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2015 19:46:26 +0200

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Source: man2html
Version: 1.6g-7
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch
User: reproducible-builds@lists.alioth.debian.org
Usertags: timestamps
X-Debbugs-Cc: reproducible-builds@lists.alioth.debian.org

Hi!

While working on the "reproducible builds" effort [1], we have noticed
that man2html does not allow to build documentation reproducibly.

The Debian reproducible builds team recently proposed a new
environment variable $SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH to be used by packages to
produce reproducible timestamps [2].

I propose the attached patch which makes man2html use the latest date in
debian/changelog as the timestamp for its html output if
$SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH is exported. Otherwise man2html will continue with
its default behaviour of using the date of today to produce its timestamps.

A version of man2html with this patch is currently being used in the
reproducible builds git repository and it has been successful at making
a package become reproducible.

The version of man2html in my patch is the version that we have in the
reproducible builds git repository.

Kind Regards,
akira


[1] https://wiki.debian.org/ReproducibleBuilds
[2] https://wiki.debian.org/ReproducibleBuilds/TimestampsProposal

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Message #12 received at 796130-close@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Robert Luberda <robert@debian.org>

To: 796130-close@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Bug#796130: fixed in man2html 1.6g-8

Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2015 07:49:13 +0000

Source: man2html
Source-Version: 1.6g-8

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
man2html, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.

A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 796130@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Robert Luberda <robert@debian.org> (supplier of updated man2html package)

(This message was generated automatically at their request; if you
believe that there is a problem with it please contact the archive
administrators by mailing ftpmaster@ftp-master.debian.org)


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Format: 1.8
Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2015 00:58:01 +0100
Source: man2html
Binary: man2html-base man2html
Architecture: source i386
Version: 1.6g-8
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Robert Luberda <robert@debian.org>
Changed-By: Robert Luberda <robert@debian.org>
Description:
 man2html   - browse man pages in your web browser
 man2html-base - convert man pages into HTML format
Closes: 796130
Changes:
 man2html (1.6g-8) unstable; urgency=medium
 .
   * Add 035-source-date-epoch.patch to produce reproducible timestamps in
     documentation (closes: #796130).
   * Use `which index++' instead of checking the full /usr/bin/index++
     path to fix lintian's `command-with-path-in-maintainer-script'.
   * postinst: Drop old code for /u/s/d/man2html dir to symlink conversion.
   * Standards-Version: 3.9.6 (no changes).
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