#1121068 vt: please make the build reproducible

Package:
src:vt
Source:
src:vt
Submitter:
Chris Lamb
Date:
2025-11-20 14:51:02 UTC
Severity:
normal
Tags:
#1121068#5
Date:
2025-11-20 14:49:10 UTC
From:
To:
Hi,

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

This was because it ships a different binary package depending
on whether the tests are run or not. Specifically, the testsuite
bumped the modification time for the test/decompose directory
and that change is reflected in the .deb.

A patch is attached that always sets the mtime for this directory to
the value of SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH.

 [0] https://reproducible-builds.org/


Regards,