Reproducible Builds: Weekly report #116

Here’s what happened in the Reproducible Builds effort between Sunday July 9 and Saturday July 15 2017:

Packages reviewed and fixed, and bugs filed

• Adrian Bunk:
  • #867771 filed against python-trollius.
  • #867773 filed against relatorio.
  • #867781 filed against gcin.
  • #867890 filed against apache-directory-jdbm.
  • #867900 filed against yapsy.
  • #867906 filed against wcsaxes.
• Chris Lamb:
  • #867753 filed against grunt (forwarded upstream).
  • #867848 filed against gconf (forwarded upstream).
  • #868133 filed against grep.
  • #868321 filed against node-marked-man (forwarded-upstream).
• Bernhard M. Wiedemann:
  • chromium
  • chromium
  • kubernetes
  • qtscriptgenerator
  • crash merged
  • ghc-rpm-macros merged
  • samba
  • htmldoc
  • efl
  • webkitgtk3 merged
  • fence-agents
  • fio merged

Reviews of unreproducible packages

13 package reviews have been added, 12 have been updated and 19 have been removed in this week, adding to our knowledge about identified issues.

2 issue types have been added:

• build_path_captured_by_valac
• timestamps_in_javascript_generated_by_node_grunt_banner

3 issue types have been updated:

• Add fix for timestamps_embedded_in_manpages_by_node_marked_man toolchain issue.
• Add fix for timestamps_in_javascript_generated_by_node_grunt_banner toolchain issue.
• timestamps_in_javascript_generated_by_node_grunt_banner is actually in src:grunt

Weekly QA work

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

• Adrian Bunk (47)

diffoscope development

Version 84 was uploaded to unstable by Mattia Rizzolo. It included contributions already reported from the previous weeks, as well as new ones:

• Ximin Luo:
  • Attempt to fix fsimage test on Jenkins
  • Use a tempdir rather than ./cache for guestfs cache
  • Add more debugging output to test_fsimage

After the release, development continued in git with contributions from:

• Mattia Rizzolo:
  • RequiredToolNotFound.get_package(): just call the new get_package_provider()
  • Add a get_package_provider() function, returning the package name that best matches the system
  • Move from deprecated platform.linux_distribution() to the external package distro

strip-nondeterminism development

Versions 0.036-1, 0.037-1 and 0.038-1 were uploaded to unstable by Chris Lamb. They included contributions from:

• Niels Thykier:
  • Add missing use statements in handler modules
  • dh_strip_nondeterminism: Assumes tmpdir() exists
  • File::StripNondeterminism:
    • Apply perltidy
    • Lazy load most handlers
    • Lazy load remaining handlers
• Chris Lamb:
  • Add missing File::Temp imports in JAR and PNG handlers. This appears to have been exposed by lazily-loading handlers in #867982.

reprotest development

Development continued in git with contributions from:

• Ximin Luo:
  • presets: use newer flag --no-sign for dpkg-buildpackage
  • Document --diffoscope-args= --exclude-directory-metadata and use it in presets
• Mattia Rizzolo:
  • Bump debhelper compat level to 10.
  • Bump Standards-Version to 4.0.0.

buildinfo.debian.net development

• Chris Lamb:
  • Avoid a race condition between check-and-creation of Buildinfo instances.

tests.reproducible-builds.org

• Mattia Rizzolo:
  • Make database backups quicker to restore by avoiding --column-inserts’s pg_dump option.
  • Fixup the deployment scripts after the stretch migration.
  • Fixup Apache redirects that were broken after introducing the buster suite
  • Fixup diffoscope jobs that were not always installing the highest possible version of diffoscope
• Holger Levsen:
  • Add a node health check for a too big jenkins.log.

Misc.

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