Bug#846365: debrepro: warn about faketime and allow alternative values

[Antonio Terceiro]

Control: tag -1 + moreinfo

Hello,

On Wed, Nov 30, 2016 at 05:52:04PM +0100, Ximin Luo wrote:
> Package: devscripts
> Version: 2.16.10
> Severity: normal
> Tags: patch
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> Running debrepro on glibc causes an infinite loop in the second build (13
> days+ build before I interrupted it). I didn't yet figure out the root cause
> of this in the glibc buildscripts, but faketime causing problems like this is
> a known issue with it, and people are not really expected to work around it.
> 
> So debrepro should at least document this, and ideally make it possible to
> disable the time variation or do something else for it. For example, I could
> make the glibc build work by instead using:
> 
>   vary 'fakeroot debian/rules binary' \
>     'faketime "@$SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH" fakeroot debian/rules binary'

the current version is not calling debian/rules directly anymore, nor has
$SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH. it looks like this:

  vary 'dpkg-buildpackage -b -us -uc' \
    'faketime +213days+7hours+13minutes dpkg-buildpackage -b -us -uc'

can you please make sure you are running the latest version, and if so, let me
now if it still doesn't work for you?
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