#1092896 userv ought to build reproducibly

Package:
userv
Source:
userv
Description:
`user services' - program call across trust boundaries
Submitter:
Ian Jackson
Date:
2025-08-03 20:07:02 UTC
Severity:
normal
#1092896#5
Date:
2025-01-13 00:50:19 UTC
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To:
https://tests.reproducible-builds.org/debian/rb-pkg/unstable/amd64/diffoscope-results/userv.html

Shows differences in build-id in executables, and a date in
spec.pdf.gz.
#1092896#10
Date:
2025-03-20 21:22:06 UTC
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The attached patch fixes the easy part of userv's reproducibility.
Apparently TeX doesn't believe in SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH unless you also set
FORCE_SOURCE_DATE.  So this patch just unconditionally sets the latter in
debian/rules, which seems to work.

The unreproducibility of pcsum.h is fiddlier and I've not worked it out
yet.
#1092896#21
Date:
2025-08-03 20:04:52 UTC
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I've taken the liberty of cloning the userv non-reproducibility bug into
two.  This one (1092896) covers non-reproducibility caused by pcsum.h,
which causes the binaries to be slightly different.  This isn't detected
by reprotest, but can be seen here:

https://tests.reproducible-builds.org/debian/dbd/unstable/amd64/userv_1.2.1.diffoscope.html#userv_-.-.-_amd--.deb---data.tar.xz---data.tar---.-usr-bin-userv---objdump---line-numbers---disassemble---demangle---reloc---no-show-raw-insn---section-.text---

I think it's caused by some change in config.status, which gets hashed
to form pcsum.h, but I've not worked out what the change is.