Reproducible Builds: Weekly report #145

Here’s what happened in the Reproducible Builds effort between Sunday January 28 and Saturday February 3 2018:

Reproducible work in other projects

• Whilst it has been active for some time, the #archlinux-reproducible Freenode IRC channel is the home to Reproducible efforts on Arch.

• Please is a cross-language build system with an emphasis on high performance, extensibility and reproduceability. It supports a number of popular languages and can automate nearly any aspect of your build process.

• Jim MacArthur posted about Reproducible Builds in BuildStream.

Development and fixes in key packages

• Chris Lamb added .buildinfo support to Lintian 2.5.73. (#853274)

Packages reviewed and fixed, and bugs filed

• Adrian Bunk:
  • #888727 filed against cdparanoia.
• Alastair McKinstry:
  • #889133 filed against gcc-7.
• Chris Lamb:
  • #889128 filed against php7.2.
  • #889171 filed against cloudkitty.
  • #889315 filed against designate.
• Bernhard M. Wiedemann:
  • syncthing

Reviews of unreproducible packages

39 package reviews have been added, 55 have been updated and 23 have been removed in this week, adding to our knowledge about identified issues.

A new issue was added:

• gfortran_mod_captures_build_path

Weekly QA work

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

• Aaron M. Ucko (1)
• Adrian Bunk (40)
• Emilio Pozuelo Monfort (2)
• Matthias Klose (3)
• Pirate Praveen (4)
• tony mancill (1)

diffoscope development

• Juliana Oliveira:
  • Catch FileNotFoundError exception
• Mattia Rizzolo:
  • Wrap a long regular expression for improved readability

Furthermore, work from Juliana—our Outreachy intern—progressed toward a diffoscope supporting parallel processing.

trydiffoscope development

Version 67.0.0 was uploaded to unstable by Chris Lamb.

• Chris Lamb:
  • Move canonical version handling to setup.py, but check they match in debian/rules. (#888882)
  • Add a MANIFEST file.

Misc.

This week’s edition was written by Bernhard M. Wiedemann, Chris Lamb, Mattia Rizzolo, Paul Wise & reviewed by a bunch of Reproducible Builds folks on IRC & the mailing lists.