Hi,

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

This is because the testsuite bumps the modification time of the
db/ directory to the current time (which later gets clamped
back to SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH), so if the tests are skipped via nocheck,
then this directory will retain its original, upstream timestamp.

Patch attached that ensures this directory always has the same
timestamp, regardless of whether the tests are run or not.

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


Regards,

Thanks for the patch.  I will take a look at this for the next upload.

Out of curiosity, does this only affect the version in unstable, or does
redmine’s test suite do the same thing in stable (the test suites have changed
quite a bit between the two versions)?

Hi Soren,

It only affects the version in unstable AFAICT.


Regards,

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
redmine, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.

A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 1144066@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Soren Stoutner <soren@debian.org> (supplier of updated redmine package)

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Format: 1.8
Date: Sat, 29 Aug 2026 12:54:14 -0700
Source: redmine
Architecture: source
Version: 6.1.3+ds-3
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Debian Ruby Team <pkg-ruby-extras-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org>
Changed-By: Soren Stoutner <soren@debian.org>
Closes: 1144066
Changes:
 redmine (6.1.3+ds-3) unstable; urgency=medium
 .
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   * debian/lrc.config:  Update for new upstream release.
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