From 79624befa1a41e0ea237a4654209a1c08524374c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2020 23:43:16 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] 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.
---
gnu/packages/statistics.scm | 9 +++++++++
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)
diff --git a/gnu/packages/statistics.scm b/gnu/packages/statistics.scm
index bebd574f418..3f65e6afa52 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/statistics.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/statistics.scm
@@ -269,6 +269,15 @@ (define r-with-tests
(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 _
--
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