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Reproducible Builds: Weekly report #114

Published: Jul 4, 2017.


Here’s what happened in the Reproducible Builds effort between Sunday June 25 and Saturday July 1 2017:

Upcoming and past events

Our next IRC meeting is scheduled for July 6th at 17:00 UTC (agenda). Topics to be discussed include an update on our next Summit, a potential NMU campaign, a press release for buster, branding, etc.

Toolchain development and fixes

  • James McCoy reviewed and merged Ximin Luo’s script debpatch into the devscripts Git repository. This is useful for rebasing our patches onto new versions of Debian packages.

Packages fixed and bugs filed

Ximin Luo uploaded dash, sensible-utils and xz-utils to the deferred uploads queue with a delay of 14 days. (We have had patches for these core packages for over a year now and the original maintainers seem inactive so Debian conventions allow for this.)

Patches submitted upstream:

Reviews of unreproducible packages

4 package reviews have been added, 4 have been updated and 35 have been removed in this week, adding to our knowledge about identified issues.

One issue types has been updated:

One issue type has been added:

Weekly QA work

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

  • Adrian Bunk (68)
  • Daniel Schepler (1)
  • Michael Hudson-Doyle (1)
  • Scott Kitterman (6)

diffoscope development

tests.reproducible-builds.org

  • Vagrant Cascadian working on testing Debian:
    • Upgraded the 27 armhf build machines to stretch.
    • Fix mtu check to only display status when eth0 is present.
  • Helmut Grohne worked on testing Debian:
    • Limit diffoscope memory usage to 10GB virtual per process. It currently tends to use 50GB virtual, 36GB resident which is bad for everything else sharing the machine. (This is #865660)
  • Alexander Couzens working on testing LEDE:
    • Add multiple architectures / targets.
    • Limit LEDE and OpenWrt jobs to only allow one build at the same time using the jenkins build blocker plugin.
    • Move git log -1 > .html to node`_document _environment().
    • Update TODOs.
  • Mattia Rizzolo working on testing Debian:
    • Updated the maintenance script for postgresql-9.6.
    • Restored the postgresql database from backup after Holger accidentally purged it.
  • Holger Levsen working on:
    • Merging all the above commits.
    • Added a check for (known) Jenkins zombie jobs and report them. (This is an long known problem with jenkins; deleted jobs sometimes come back…)
    • Upgraded the remaining amd64 nodes to stretch.
    • Accidentally purged postgres-9.4 from jenkins, so we could test our backups ;-)
    • Updated our stretch upgrade TODOs.

Misc.

This week’s edition was written by Chris Lamb, Ximin Luo, Holger Levsen, Bernhard Wiedemann, Vagrant Cascadian & reviewed by a bunch of Reproducible Builds folks on IRC & the mailing lists.


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