[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #48655] communications: Avoid unreproducible time stamps in PDF files

[Rafael Laboissiere]

URL:
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                 Summary: communications: Avoid unreproducible time stamps in
PDF files
                 Project: GNU Octave
            Submitted by: rlaboiss
            Submitted on: Thu 28 Jul 2016 09:17:08 PM GMT
                Category: Octave Forge Package
                Severity: 3 - Normal
                Priority: 5 - Normal
              Item Group: Other
                  Status: None
             Assigned to: None
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             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
                 Release: other
        Operating System: Any

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Details:

Debian pays a lot of attention to the build reproducibility of its packages. 
Currently, the octave-communications package is not building reproducibly. The
problem comes (partly) from the fact that the documentation figures in PDF
format are not generated in a deterministic way.  The patch attached to this
bug report fixes the problem by passing seeds as arguments to the awgn and
randsrc calls.

Please, consider applying this patch in the next release of the communications
package.




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Date: Thu 28 Jul 2016 09:17:08 PM GMT  Name: random-seed-for-pdf-doc.patch 
Size: 2kB   By: rlaboiss

<http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/download.php?file_id=38048>

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