Bug#804729: pbuilder: please make the build reproducible

[Mattia Rizzolo]

control: tag -1 + pending

On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 11:42:02PM +0100, Reiner Herrmann wrote:
> The PDF documentation is varying in the /ID field (but not the Creation/Modification
> time fields). After some debugging I found out that dblatex (which generates
> the tex file that is used to build the pdf), is building the documentation
> in a random directory.
> Since our pdflatex honours SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH, the Creation/Modification times
> did not differ. But the absolute source file path (which is random) is also
> part of the /ID calculation.

PDF are too complex :|

> The attached patch fixes the unreproducibility by telling dblatex to build in
> a deterministic path.

\o/
Thanks very much, already committed :)

> -	dblatex $<
> +	dblatex --tmpdir=docbuild $<


I'm curious, though, where did you find this --tmpdir?  The manpages I
read lack this option...

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