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Reproducible Builds: Weekly report #49

Published: Apr 12, 2016.


What happened in the reproducible builds effort between March 27th and April 2nd:

Toolchain fixes

  • Emmanuel Bourg uploaded ant/1.9.6-2 which makes the Tstamp task support the SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH variable, and the Javadoc task use en as the default locale if none was specified and SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH is set.

Packages fixed

The following packages have become reproducible due to changes in their build dependencies: ctioga2, erlang-bitcask, libcommons-collections3-java, libjgoodies-animation-java, libjide-oss-java, octave-gsl, octave-interval, octave-io, octave-quaternion, octave-signal, octave-stk, segment, service-wrapper-java, sqlline, svnkit, uddi4j, velocity-tools.

The following packages became reproducible after getting fixed:

Some uploads fixed some reproducibility issues, but not all of them:

Patches submitted which have not made their way to the archive yet:

  • #783239 on kexec-tools by Lunar: follow-up patch to cope with locale variations.
  • #819347 on starvoyager by Sascha Steinbiss: sort the list of input object files.
  • #819352 on xpdf by Sascha Steinbiss: sort the list of linked object files.
  • #819512 on breeze by Dhole: force grep to treat all files as text to avoid locale-related issues.
  • #819726 on ckbuilder by boyska: add support for SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH.
  • #819767 on libtool by rain1: removes extra timestamps from the build system, ensure a stable file order when creating the source archive, and replace uses of the hostname command with the fixed string “localhost”.

tests.reproducible-builds.org

The i386 builders are now testing packages on i386 for reproducibility. It will probably take 4 weeks until everything has been build twice, on this arch. (h01ger)

Package reviews

52 reviews have been removed, 24 added and 4 updated in the previous week.

Chris Lamb reported 13 new FTBFS.

New issue: copyright_year_in_comments_generated_by_ckbuilder.

Misc.

This week’s edition was mostly written by Lunar, with some help by Reiner Herrmann and h01ger.


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