Debian Bug report logs - #991001
automake1.11: reproducible builds: timestamps in info pages

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

To: submit@bugs.debian.org

Subject: automake1.11: reproducible builds: timestamps in info pages

Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2021 10:12:02 -0700

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Source: automake1.11
Severity: normal
Tags: patch
User: reproducible-builds@lists.alioth.debian.org
Usertags: timestamps
X-Debbugs-Cc: reproducible-bugs@lists.alioth.debian.org

Timestamps are embedded in the info pages shipped in automake1.11:

  https://tests.reproducible-builds.org/debian/rb-pkg/bullseye/amd64/diffoscope-results/automake1.11.html

  ./usr/share/info/automake-1.11.info-1.gz

  ...6,·18·July·2022)	
  vs.
  ...6,·16·June·2021)

The attached patches fix this by removing the UPDATED parts from
doc/automake.texi.

With this patch applied (and another coming soon), automake1.11 should
become reproducible on the tests.reproducible-builds.org infrastructure.


Thanks for maintaining automake1.11!


live well,
  vagrant

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From 9de465537971dbbc32efba395f03733edc988df0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Vagrant Cascadian <vagrant@reproducible-builds.org>
Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2021 16:48:35 +0000
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] doc/automake.texi: Do not embed date in the info pages.

https://reproducible-builds.org/docs/timestamps/
---
 doc/automake.texi | 6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/doc/automake.texi b/doc/automake.texi
index a4373aa..3452bb7 100644
--- a/doc/automake.texi
+++ b/doc/automake.texi
@@ -19,8 +19,8 @@
 
 @copying
 
-This manual is for GNU Automake (version @value{VERSION},
-@value{UPDATED}), a program that creates GNU standards-compliant
+This manual is for GNU Automake (version @value{VERSION}),
+a program that creates GNU standards-compliant
 Makefiles from template files.
 
 Copyright @copyright{} 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002,
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ section entitled ``GNU Free Documentation License.''
 
 @titlepage
 @title GNU Automake
-@subtitle For version @value{VERSION}, @value{UPDATED}
+@subtitle For version @value{VERSION}
 @author David MacKenzie
 @author Tom Tromey
 @author Alexandre Duret-Lutz
-- 
2.32.0

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