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Reproducible Builds: Weekly report #137

Published: Dec 15, 2017.


Here’s what happened in the Reproducible Builds effort between Sunday December 3 and Saturday December 9 2017:

Documentation update

There was more discussion on different logos being proposed for the project.

Reproducible work in other projects

Cyril Brulebois wrote about Tails’ work on reproducibility

Gabriel Scherer submitted a pull request to the OCaml compiler to honour the BUILD_PATH_PREFIX_MAP environment variable.

Packages reviewed and fixed

Patches filed upstream:

  • Bernhard M. Wiedemann:
  • Eli Schwartz:
  • Foxboron
    • gopass: - use SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH in Makefile
  • Jelle
    • PHP: - use SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH for Build Date
  • Chris Lamb:
    • pylint - file ordering, nondeterministic data structure
    • tlsh - clarify error message (via diffoscope development)
  • Alexander “lynxis” Couzens:

Patches filed in Debian:

Patches filed in openSUSE:

  • Bernhard M. Wiedemann:
    • build-compare (merged) - handle .egg as .zip
    • neovim (merged) - hostname, username
    • perl (merged) - date, hostname, username
    • sendmail - date, hostname, username

Patches filed in OpenWRT:

  • Alexander “lynxis” Couzens:

Reviews of unreproducible packages

17 package reviews have been added, 31 have been updated and 43 have been removed in this week, adding to our knowledge about identified issues.

Weekly QA work

During our reproducibility testing, FTBFS bugs have been detected and reported by:

  • Adrian Bunk (13)
  • Andreas Beckmann (2)
  • Emilio Pozuelo Monfort (3)

reprotest development

  • Santiago Torres:
    • Use uname -m instead of arch.

trydiffoscope development

Version 66 was uploaded to unstable by Chris Lamb. It included contributions already covered by posts of the previous weeks as well as new ones from:

  • Chris Lamb:
    • Parse dpkg-parsechangelog instead of hard-coding version
    • Bump Standards-Version to 4.1.2
    • flake8 formatting

reproducible-website development

tests.reproducible-builds.org

reproducible Arch Linux:

reproducible F-Droid:

Misc.

This week’s edition was written by Ximin Luo, Alexander Couzens, Holger Levsen, Chris Lamb, Bernhard M. Wiedemann and Santiago Torres & reviewed by a bunch of Reproducible Builds folks on IRC & the mailing lists.


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