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authorRicardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>2020-10-19 23:43:16 +0200
committerRicardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>2020-10-20 00:03:40 +0200
commit79624befa1a41e0ea237a4654209a1c08524374c (patch)
tree296eec9b19110885dbc8ae217631a0a7a8db0d58
parent615ee12e64ced278389e2ac8b64eca19a9ff688d (diff)
gnu: r-with-tests: Work around reproducibility problem.
Fixes <https://bugs.gnu.org/35441>. * gnu/packages/statistics.scm (r-with-tests)[arguments]: Avoid reproducibility problem by patching problematic sequence of characters in DESCRIPTION file template.
-rw-r--r--gnu/packages/statistics.scm9
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/gnu/packages/statistics.scm b/gnu/packages/statistics.scm
index bebd574f41..3f65e6afa5 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/statistics.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/statistics.scm
@@ -269,6 +269,15 @@ as.POSIXct(if (\"\" != Sys.getenv(\"SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH\")) {\
(substitute* "tools/help2man.pl"
(("my \\$date = strftime \"%B %Y\", localtime" line)
(string-append line " 1"))))
+
+ ;; The "References" section of this file when converted to
+ ;; package.rds is sometimes stored with a newline, sometimes with
+ ;; a space. We avoid this problem by adding characters to break
+ ;; up the series of line break and spaces that is suspected to be
+ ;; the culprit.
+ (substitute* "src/library/methods/DESCRIPTION.in"
+ ((" ``Software")
+ " -- ``Software"))
#t))
(add-before 'build 'set-locales
(lambda _