Debian Bug report logs - #827187
latex2html: please make the output reproducible (toolchain,timestamps,username,randomness)

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

From: Alexis Bienvenüe <pado@passoire.fr>

To: submit@bugs.debian.org

Subject: latex2html: please make the output reproducible (toolchain,timestamps,username,randomness)

Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2016 16:23:21 +0200

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Source: latex2html
Version: 2015-debian1-1
Severity: wishlist
Tags: upstream
User: reproducible-builds@lists.alioth.debian.org
Usertags: toolchain timestamps username randomness
X-Debbugs-Cc: reproducible-builds@lists.alioth.debian.org
Control: block -1 by 827115

Dear Maintainer,

While working on the "reproducible builds" effort [1], we have noticed
that some packages (including latex2html itself) use latex2html in their
building process, leading to the following reproducibility issues :

* keys from the perl hashes are not sorted. See
reproducible-output.patch to sort them and get a reproducible order.
* a timestamp is included in the output. See
honour-SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH.patch to use the SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH environment
variable when set [2]. This way, the timestamps correspond to the
sources date instead of the build date.
* the user name is included in the output. See
suppress-username-from-output.patch to strip it.
* the index keys are not fully ordered in the case cleaned values are
equal. See idx-sort-all.patch

Once these patches are applied, and once https://bugs.debian.org/827115
is fixed, latex2html can be built reproducibly in our current
experimental framework.

Regards,
Alexis Bienvenüe.

[1] https://wiki.debian.org/ReproducibleBuilds
[2] https://reproducible-builds.org/specs/source-date-epoch/

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Message #16 received at 827187-close@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Carsten Leonhardt <leo@debian.org>

To: 827187-close@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Bug#827187: fixed in latex2html 2018-debian1-1

Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2018 12:34:48 +0000

Source: latex2html
Source-Version: 2018-debian1-1

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
latex2html, 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 827187@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Carsten Leonhardt <leo@debian.org> (supplier of updated latex2html 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: Thu, 01 Mar 2018 12:36:03 +0100
Source: latex2html
Binary: latex2html
Architecture: source
Version: 2018-debian1-1
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Debian QA Group <packages@qa.debian.org>
Changed-By: Carsten Leonhardt <leo@debian.org>
Description:
 latex2html - LaTeX to HTML translator
Closes: 144034 188024 310702 612126 827187 827285 834420 834423
Changes:
 latex2html (2018-debian1-1) unstable; urgency=low
 .
   * QA upload.
   * New upstream release
     (Closes: #188024, #834420, #144034, #310702, #612126, #834423, #827187)
   * Removed patches applied upstream, refreshed debian-install.patch
   * Corrected typo in Homepage-Header in debian/control. (Closes: #827285)
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