Debian Bug report logs - #978054
autoconf: reproducible builds: build time embedded in various documentation files

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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: autoconf: reproducible builds: build time embedded in various documentation files

Date: Fri, 25 Dec 2020 01:18:09 -0800

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

Some documentation files still manage to capture the build time even
after applying the patch from #950416:

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

  /usr/share/doc/autoconf/autoconf.html

  This·manual·(25·December·2020)·is·for·GNU·Autoconf
  This·manual·(27·January·2022)·is·for·GNU·Autoconf

The attached patch fixes this by removing the UPDATED value from
autoconf.texi, used to generate these documentation files.


live well,
  vagrant

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From 0f7415dd520e7f005a0fb42ce42975dca46ef8e8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Vagrant Cascadian <vagrant@reproducible-builds.org>
Date: Fri, 25 Dec 2020 08:39:37 +0000
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] Remove build date from autoconf.texi.

autoconf.texi is used to generate .pdf, .ps, .info and .html
documentation shipped with the package.

See "Timestamps are best avoided":

  https://reproducible-builds.org/docs/timestamps/
---
 doc/autoconf.texi | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/doc/autoconf.texi b/doc/autoconf.texi
index 436c987..acdcd76 100644
--- a/doc/autoconf.texi
+++ b/doc/autoconf.texi
@@ -197,7 +197,7 @@
 
 @copying
 
-This manual (@value{UPDATED}) is for GNU Autoconf
+This manual is for GNU Autoconf
 (version @value{VERSION}),
 a package for creating scripts to configure source code packages using
 templates and an M4 macro package.
@@ -245,7 +245,7 @@ entitled ``GNU Free Documentation License.''
 @titlepage
 @title Autoconf
 @subtitle Creating Automatic Configuration Scripts
-@subtitle for version @value{VERSION}, @value{UPDATED}
+@subtitle for version @value{VERSION}
 @author David MacKenzie
 @author Ben Elliston
 @author Akim Demaille
-- 
2.20.1

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Message #10 received at 978054-close@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Debian FTP Masters <ftpmaster@ftp-master.debian.org>

To: 978054-close@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Bug#978054: fixed in autoconf 2.69-14

Date: Fri, 25 Dec 2020 09:48:21 +0000

Source: autoconf
Source-Version: 2.69-14
Done: Vagrant Cascadian <vagrant@reproducible-builds.org>

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
autoconf, 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 978054@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Vagrant Cascadian <vagrant@reproducible-builds.org> (supplier of updated autoconf 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: Fri, 25 Dec 2020 01:25:29 -0800
Source: autoconf
Architecture: source
Version: 2.69-14
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Debian QA Group <packages@qa.debian.org>
Changed-By: Vagrant Cascadian <vagrant@reproducible-builds.org>
Closes: 978054
Changes:
 autoconf (2.69-14) unstable; urgency=medium
 .
   * QA upload.
   * Remove build date from autoconf.texi (Closes: #978054).
   * debian/control: Add Vcs headers.
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