Debian Bug report logs - #979023
lirc: reproducible builds: File contents may vary depending on locale

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

To: submit@bugs.debian.org

Subject: lirc: reproducible builds: File contents may vary depending on locale

Date: Fri, 01 Jan 2021 19:26:18 -0800

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

The contents of various files appears to vary with certain locales.

│ │ │ ├── ./usr/include/lirc/input_map.inc
│ │ │ │┄ Ordering differences only
│ │ │ │ @@ -1,12 +1,12 @@
│ │ │ │  {"KEY_0", 11},
│ │ │ │ -{"KEY_1", 2},
│ │ │ │  {"KEY_102ND", 86},
│ │ │ │  {"KEY_10CHANNELSDOWN", 0x1b9},
│ │ │ │  {"KEY_10CHANNELSUP", 0x1b8},
│ │ │ │ +{"KEY_1", 2},
│ │ │ │  {"KEY_2", 3},
│ │ │ │  {"KEY_3", 4},


The attached patches fix this by setting the locale to C.UTF-8 from
debian/rules.


Thanks for maintaining lirc!


live well,
  vagrant

[0004-debian-rules-Run-build-in-the-C.UTF-8-locale.patch (text/x-diff, inline)]

From 096e6062ab50f03c6c0826176d8152f1b724f0d9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Vagrant Cascadian <vagrant@reproducible-builds.org>
Date: Sat, 2 Jan 2021 02:55:00 +0000
Subject: [PATCH 4/5] debian/rules: Run build in the C.UTF-8 locale.

Some file contents may vary sort order when built in different
locales.

https://reproducible-builds.org/docs/locales/
---
 debian/rules | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/debian/rules b/debian/rules
index 446510f..beabc5e 100755
--- a/debian/rules
+++ b/debian/rules
@@ -5,6 +5,8 @@ include /usr/share/dpkg/architecture.mk
 export DEB_BUILD_MAINT_OPTIONS      = hardening=+all
 export DEB_LDFLAGS_MAINT_APPEND     = -Wl,--as-needed
 
+export LC_ALL=C.UTF-8
+
 %:
 	dh $@ --with python3
 
-- 
2.30.0

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