liblopsub (1.0.3-2) [PTS] [DDPO]

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liblopsub (1.0.3-2) unstable; urgency=low

  * Make the output of lopsubgen reproducible.
  * Don't embed compile-time timestamps into generated files.

 -- Andre Noll <maan@tuebingen.mpg.de>  Fri, 12 Jul 2019 20:55:26 +0200

This branch is 14 commits ahead of tag v1.0.3

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commit 511c65e28799c08d17ebdf7b10a4e15e702958f7
Merge: 61ec582 4590105
Author: Andre Noll <maan@tuebingen.mpg.de>
Date:   Sun May 9 16:47:26 2021 +0200

    Merge branch 't/build-improvements'
    
    The build system fails in unexpected ways when required programs like
    m4 or flex are not installed. One particular problem is a construct
    of the form
    
        $(M4) ... > $@
    
    in the recipe of the lopsub.h target. If m4 is not installed, this
    results in an empty lopsub.h file, which is considered up-to-date
    by subsequent runs of make(1). The subsequent compilation of lsg.c
    succeeds despite of the empty lopsub.h, but the resulting executable
    segfaults.
    
    The reason is that lsg1.c includes lopsub.h to declare lls_version(),
    but due to lopsub.h being empty, the declaration is missing and the
    compiler implicitly assumes an int return value rather than char *.
    
    This patch series addresses this problem in several ways. With the
    series applied:
    
    * the build fails early if m4 or flex are not installed,
    * missing function declarations are considered errors rather than warnings,
    * incompletely written targets are removed by make(1).

commit 45901057b4103eeb745e080521678c0e43e0eca1
Author: Andre Noll <maan@tuebingen.mpg.de>
Date:   Mon Apr 26 00:57:12 2021 +0200

    build: Error out on implicit function declarations.
    
    Replacing lopsub.h by an empty file builds a buggy lopsubgen-stage1
    executable which segfaults due to a format string mismatch caused
    by the implicit declaration of lls_version(). In this package all
    functions are supposed to be declared, so let's fail the build if
    any undeclared functions are found.
    
    Tested-by: Alex Gietz <oss@mcdinner.de>

commit 73d2280b56e07b3115c14deaa994114a462afd33
Author: Andre Noll <maan@tuebingen.mpg.de>
Date:   Mon Apr 26 00:56:16 2021 +0200

    build: Improve handling of compiler options.
    
    Introduce LLS_CFLAGS and STRICT_CFLAGS to avoid duplicating the flags
    in the various cc recipes. We don't touch CFLAGS or CPPFLAGS in the
    Makefile but include it the cc commands to let the user override
    our settings.

commit c1840c5bb555ba09c09bdeb2f29305681038317f
Author: Andre Noll <maan@tuebingen.mpg.de>
Date:   Mon Apr 26 00:17:37 2021 +0200

    build: Activate .DELETE_ON_ERROR.
    
    Since m4 lacks the -o option to specify an output file, we redirect
    stdout in several recipes, in particular in the recipe that creates
    lopsub.h from lopsub.h.m4. If the m4 command fails, lopsub.h will
    be incomplete or empty, yet it will be considered as up-to-date
    by make(1).
    
    This patch teaches make(1) to remove such incomplete output files
    on errors.

commit 7623e601612eb36cf86511b40fef3f5a20e8b834
Author: Andre Noll <maan@tuebingen.mpg.de>
Date:   Mon Apr 26 00:04:05 2021 +0200

    build: Bail out early if m4 or lex don't exist.
    
    This gives a decent error message on the attempt to run make(1) on a
    system where one or both of these essential programs are not installed.
    
    A previous version of the patch used .SHELLSTATUS instead of the
    dummy variable, but this did not work with make-4.1 which ships
    with Ubuntu-18.04.
    
    Suggested-by: Alex Gietz <oss@mcdinner.de>

commit d6f28609ba3b250079ac0c55422dafdabb6c0c71
Author: Andre Noll <maan@tuebingen.mpg.de>
Date:   Mon Apr 26 00:48:03 2021 +0200

    build: Remove duplicate -g in cc command.
    
    Specifying -g more than once has no effect.

commit 61ec5823d7b64fcdfab8c0ddb959bd68dd90e07a
Author: Andre Noll <maan@tuebingen.mpg.de>
Date:   Tue Jul 7 20:34:19 2020 +0200

    build: Avoid "html" rule with empty recipe.
    
    This was over-engineered, and only one of the three rules which
    create .html files depends on both the header and the footer.

commit 76e953dde7347553b405863201dfb7859674206c
Author: Andre Noll <maan@tuebingen.mpg.de>
Date:   Sat Apr 25 23:09:41 2020 +0200

    Fix build target www.
    
    This target is supposed to create the html files of the home page.
    This broke one year ago when the build system was instructed to create
    compressed man pages. Fortunately, the fix is trivial.
    
    Fixes: f35b70fc3e8656f71437cc85062da31488acd781

commit b755936434b8eb302f0e990b976350c305f6706d
Author: Andre Noll <maan@tuebingen.mpg.de>
Date:   Thu Dec 12 16:49:16 2019 +0100

    Fix three typos.
    
    These were pointed out by lintian. See the lintian report page:
    
            https://lintian.debian.org/full/maan@tuebingen.mpg.de.html

commit 2d0464872cec02b53f5bb5ca2a037cb764641c1f
Author: Chris Lamb <lamby@debian.org>
Date:   Mon Dec 2 10:44:23 2019 +0100

    Make the build reproducible.
    
    Whilst working on the Reproducible Builds effort [0] we noticed that
    liblopsub could not be built reproducibly.
    
    This is because it calls "gzip" manually without the -n
    flag. This should have been reported by lintian via the
    package-contains-timestamped-gzip tag.
    
      [0] https://reproducible-builds.org/

commit a135d7d62a182f933b842509d61156c76d44f013
Author: Andre Noll <maan@tuebingen.mpg.de>
Date:   Sat Jul 13 14:52:15 2019 +0200

    lopsub-1.0.3-2
    
    Bump the debian version number to quickly land the two recent fixes
    for reproducible builds.

commit ef6396807288ea0f635ab50bc789a162b84c67ba
Author: Andre Noll <maan@tuebingen.mpg.de>
Date:   Fri Jul 12 20:34:45 2019 +0200

    Makefile: Get rid of superfluous '+' character in date.
    
    Commit bb3a974325f (Don't embed compile-time timestamps into generated
    files) from a couple of weeks ago introduced a leading '+' in case
    SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH is not set because DATE_FMT already contains the
    '+' character for the argument to date(1), The superfluous '+'
    becomes part of the generated man pages, which looks a bit weird.

commit 0a8299dd8da7dba7437550d12bf180d9e10d512b
Author: Chris Lamb <lamby@debian.org>
Date:   Fri Jul 12 07:59:50 2019 +0200

    lsg.c: Make the output of lopsubgen reproducible.
    
    Whilst working on the Reproducible Builds effort [0], we noticed that
    liblopsub generates output that is not reproducible. The lopsubgen
    utility does not respect SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH [1] and thus packages such
    as src:tfortune are rendered unreproducible as they then encode the
    build date and time.
    
    This patch makes lopsubgen honour SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH.
    
    [0] https://reproducible-builds.org/
    [1] https://reproducible-builds.org/specs/source-date-epoch/
    
    Signed-off-by: Andre Noll <maan@tuebingen.mpg.de>

commit bb3a974325f5967c38da61ff61b5f7c732fcfa59
Author: Chris Lamb <lamby@debian.org>
Date:   Fri May 31 19:54:04 2019 +0200

    Don't embed compile-time timestamps into generated files.
    
    Currently the build is not reproducible because make(1) runs
    date(1) to provide the month and the year for the man page. Fix
    this by honouring SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH as described in
    
            https://reproducible-builds.org/specs/source-date-epoch/
    
    Signed-off-by: Andre Noll <maan@tuebingen.mpg.de>