[debhelper-devel] Bug#759895: Bug#759895: debhelper: please strip non-deterministic data from static libraries

[Andrew Ayer]

On Sun, 31 Aug 2014 15:34:57 -0700
Joey Hess <joeyh at debian.org> wrote:

> Jérémy Bobbio wrote:
> > Andrew Ayer has been working on a `dh_strip_nondeterminism` helper:
> > http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/reproducible/strip-nondeterminism.git/
> > 
> > We can move that chunk of code to it, alongside normalizers for
> > gzip, zip, and jar files.
> > 
> > But we were kinda hoping to get that helper as part of debhelper in
> > order to not have to modify every packages to add a new
> > Build-Depends.
> 
> Right.. I was suggesting a non-debhelper utility, which dh_strip could
> then call.

That sounds good to me.  Would you have any objections to adding a
Depends: to a hypothetical "strip-nondeterminism" package that would
contain normalizer utilities for ar, gzip, jar, etc. files?

Cheers,
Andrew