Debian Bug report logs - #963600
critcl: please make the teapot.txt files reproducible

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From: "Chris Lamb" <lamby@debian.org>

To: submit@bugs.debian.org

Subject: critcl: please make the teapot.txt files reproducible

Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2020 10:22:29 +0100

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Source: critcl
Version: 3.1.18.1+dfsg-3
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch
User: reproducible-builds@lists.alioth.debian.org
Usertags: timestamps
X-Debbugs-Cc: reproducible-bugs@lists.alioth.debian.org

Hi,

Whilst working on the Reproducible Builds effort [0] we noticed that
critcl could not be built reproducibly.

This is because the teapot.txt files contain the current build date:

  │ │ ├── ./usr/lib/tcltk/x86_64-linux-gnu/critcl_callback1/teapot.txt
  │ │ │ @@ -1,10 +1,10 @@
  │ │ │  Package critcl::callback 1
  │ │ │  Meta platform linux-glibc2.30-x86_64
  │ │ │ -Meta build::date 2021-07-26
  │ │ │ +Meta build::date 2020-06-24
  │ │ │  Meta generated::by {critcl 3.1.18} root
  │ │ │  Meta generated::date critcl

A patch is attached that updates these values in the Debian binary
package from the SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH [1] variable instead, but we could
also patch critcl.tcl to use this variable directly (which could go
upstream):

3980         dict set v::code($file) config package build::date \
3981             [list [clock format [clock seconds] -format {%Y-%m-%d}]]
3982


 [0] https://reproducible-builds.org/
 [1] https://reproducible-builds.org/specs/source-date-epoch/


Regards,

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Message #10 received at 963600@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: "Chris Lamb" <lamby@debian.org>

To: 963600@bugs.debian.org, reproducible-bugs@lists.alioth.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#963600: critcl: please make the teapot.txt files reproducible

Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2020 10:34:42 +0100

Hi Andrew,

> Source: critcl
> Version: 3.1.17+dfsg-1
> Tags: patch

There hasn't seem to be any update on this bug in 90 days. Would you
consider applying this patch and uploading?

Having reproducible teapot.txt files has, of course, always been a
priority for Debian.


Regards,

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Message #15 received at 963600@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: "Chris Lamb" <lamby@debian.org>

To: 963600@bugs.debian.org, reproducible-bugs@lists.alioth.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#963600: critcl: please make the teapot.txt files reproducible

Date: Mon, 21 Dec 2020 13:07:03 -0000

Chris Lamb wrote:

> [..]

Friendly ping on this?


Regards,

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Message #20 received at 963600@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: "Chris Lamb" <lamby@debian.org>

To: 963600@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: critcl: please make the teapot.txt files reproducible

Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2023 16:19:12 +0000

Hi,

> critcl: please make the teapot.txt files reproducible

My previous patch no longer makes this package reproducible; there is
an additional variation within:

  /usr/lib/tcltk/x86_64-linux-gnu/critcl_callback1/linux-x86_64/callback.so

I suspect this is due to the compilation of this file not using CFLAGS
(etc.), but exporting them from debian/rules does not seem to make a
difference (and the build.tcl script is somewhat opaque).


Regards,

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