Debian package waiting for review about zeal-packaging

[trollixx]

See https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/zeal. As of today the latest version of Zeal has been added to Debian unstable. I guess this issue can be considered resolved.

[trollixx]

Oh, I have just realised that the email about that was from you :)

[sammy44nts]

ChangZhuo Chen (陳昌倬) [email protected] is the maintainer for the debian package and made it to reach the testing repository. Debian Quality Assurance
I think this package will never find its way to the stable repository while the "unreproducible build" issue is not solved. (How to solve this issue)

Am I wrong ?

[trollixx]

I am not sure, but you might be right. @czchen are reproducible builds required for Debian?

[czchen]

@trollixx Currently reproducible builds is not required for stable.

The current unreproducible build is caused by __DATE__ and __TIME__ macros. I can patch it in Debian to see if it is reproducible or not. However, currently Debian is in GCC5 transition now, so I won't do it until the transition is over.

[sammy44nts]

@czchen I do not find libqt5sql5-sqlite in /debian/control Build-Depends. I think issue #4 will apply if this package was not already install on the user debian OS. See zealdocs/zeal#382

[czchen]

@sammy44nts Thank for the report. Could you help to send a bug report to Debian via reportbug?

[sammy44nts]

Done, sorry for the delay.

[czchen]

@sammy44nts These issues are fixed in Debian (https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/zeal), thanks for the bug reports.

As for "unreproducible build", my plan is waiting for SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH patch in GCC. After the patch is in GCC, we will have a reproducible build. See https://wiki.debian.org/ReproducibleBuilds/TimestampsFromCPPMacros for more information.