#1140368 spooles: please make the build reproducible

Package:
src:spooles
Source:
src:spooles
Submitter:
Jochen Sprickerhof
Date:
2026-06-19 08:33:02 UTC
Severity:
normal
Tags:
#1140368#5
Date:
2026-06-19 08:30:56 UTC
From:
To:
Hi,

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

This is because the LaTeX-based documentation includes the current
build date. This can be specified to use SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH through the
LaTeX-specific FORCE_SOURCE_DATE environment variable.

Adding

export FORCE_SOURCE_DATE=1

at the top of debian/rules makes the package reproducible

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

Cheers Jochen