#1143617 lcov: please make the build reproducible

Package:
src:lcov
Source:
src:lcov
Submitter:
Chris Lamb
Date:
2026-08-05 00:19:02 UTC
Severity:
normal
Tags:
#1143617#5
Date:
2026-08-05 00:17:24 UTC
From:
To:
Hi,

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

Looks like upstream changed how the manpages were generated, meaning
that the manpages became unreproducible again:

│ │ │ ├── ./usr/share/man/man1/gendesc.1.gz
│ │ │ │ ├── gendesc.1
│ │ │ │ │ @@ -24,15 +24,15 @@
│ │ │ │ │  . RE
│ │ │ │ │  .\" indent \\n[an-margin]
│ │ │ │ │  .\" old: \\n[rst2man-indent\\n[rst2man-indent-level]]
│ │ │ │ │  .nr rst2man-indent-level -1
│ │ │ │ │  .\" new: \\n[rst2man-indent\\n[rst2man-indent-level]]
│ │ │ │ │  .in \\n[rst2man-indent\\n[rst2man-indent-level]]u
│ │ │ │ │  ..
│ │ │ │ │ -.TH "GENDESC" "1" "2027-09-06" "2.5.0" "LCOV"
│ │ │ │ │ +.TH "GENDESC" "1" "2026-08-05" "2.5.0" "LCOV"
│ │ │ │ │  .SH NAME

Patch attached.


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


Regards,