From: cjwatson@debian.org   
      
   Control: forwarded -1 https://github.com/zopefoundation/zope.def   
   rredimport/pull/19   
      
   On Fri, Dec 19, 2025 at 08:26:55AM -0800, Chris Lamb wrote:   
   >Whilst working on the Reproducible Builds effort [0], we noticed that   
   >zope.deferredimport could not be built reproducibly.   
   >   
   >This is because the testsuite regenerates a number of samples, and these   
   >generated files differ from the ones that ship with the source package.   
   >This means that if the tests are skipped, the binary pacakge contains   
   >slightly different contents.   
   >   
   >To fix this, I've attached a patch that prevents these sample files being   
   >distributed in the binary package completely; at a quick glance, they   
   >seem to be generated from docstrings in the documentation and aren't meant   
   >to be actually used or even read 'standalone'... but I'm sure as   
   >maintainer you will have a better handle on this.   
      
   As it stands, this patch breaks autopkgtests, because they expect to be   
   able to import the samples from a directory relative to the Python   
   package.   
      
   I think a better fix would be to update the doctest so that the sample   
   files it generates match the files shipped in the package, since that   
   only stopped being the case recently.  I sent a PR upstream for this   
   (https://github.com/zopefoundation/zope.deferredimport/pull/19) and will   
   apply it in Debian.   
      
   Thanks,   
      
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   Colin Watson (he/him)                              [cjwatson@debian.org]   
      
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