#1136425 - ruby-otr-activerecord: please make the build reproducible (original) (raw)

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ruby-otr-activerecord: please make the build reproducible

Reported by: "Chris Lamb" lamby@debian.org

Date: Wed, 13 May 2026 16:55:03 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Tags: patch

Found in version ruby-otr-activerecord/2.6.0-1

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Bug#1136425; Package src:ruby-otr-activerecord. (Wed, 13 May 2026 16:55:04 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).

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Source: ruby-otr-activerecord Version: 2.6.0-1 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch User: reproducible-builds@lists.alioth.debian.org Usertags: timestamps X-Debbugs-Cc: reproducible-bugs@lists.alioth.debian.org

Hi,

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

This is because the testsuite bumps the modification time of the directories under the examples/ dir 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.

Instead of saving upstream's original timestamp and restoring that later, I've attached a patch to always set the mtime of this directory to SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH, regardless of whether the tests are run or not.

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

Regards,

-- ,''. : :' : Chris Lamb . ' lamby@debian.org / chris-lamb.co.uk `-

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