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Bug#774069: debootstrap: please use a deterministic mtime for devices.tar members



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Jérémy Bobbio <lunar@debian.org> (2014-12-28):
> Source: debootstrap
> Version: 1.0.66
> Severity: wishlist
> Tags: patch
> User: reproducible-builds@lists.alioth.debian.org
> Usertags: timestamps
> 
> Hi!
> 
> While working on the “reproducible builds” effort [1], we have noticed
> that debootstrap could not be built reproducibly.
> 
> The current build process captures the build time when devices.tar.gz is
> created. The attached patch will use the time of the latest
> debian/changelog entry as the mtime for devices.tar members, and remove
> the timestamp from the gzip header of devices.tar.gz.
> 
> debootstrap can then be built reproducibly within our current
> framework.

Thanks! Pushed to git master.

Mraw,
KiBi.

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