[Pkg-octave-devel] Unreproducible builds

[Rafael Laboissiere]

Several DOG packages have unreproducible builds [1], due to the way "pkg 
install" works by creating a temporary build diretory, whose name is 
randomly chosen [2].

I found a way to get around this problem by changing the code in 
otave-pkg.mk from the octave-pkg-dev package, according to the patch 
attached to this message.  It is not very elegant, but it seems to work 
well.  Unless there are objections or someone finds a better solution, I 
will commit this change.

Rafael

1. https://reproducible.debian.net/issues/unstable/random_buildpath_by_octave_issue.html 
2. https://sources.debian.net/src/octave/4.0.0-5/scripts/pkg/private/install.m/?hl=67,70,96#L67
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