Reproducible Builds: Weekly report #139

Here’s what happened in the Reproducible Builds effort between Sunday December 17 and Saturday December 23 2017:

Packages reviewed and fixed, and bugs filed

Bugs filed in Debian:

• Chris Lamb:
  • #884677 filed against bitseq.
  • #884714 filed against gtranslator.
  • #884936 filed against nanoc.
  • #885063 filed against cairomm.

Bugs filed in openSUSE:

• Bernhard M. Wiedemann:
  • WindowMaker (merged) - use modification date of ChangeLog, upstreamable
  • ntp (merged) - drop date
  • bzflag - version upgrade to include already-upstreamed SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH patch

Reviews of unreproducible packages

20 package reviews have been added, 36 have been updated and 32 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 (6)
• Matthias Klose (8)

diffoscope development

• Juliana Oliveira Rodrigues:
  • tests: comparators: test_rlib: fixes llvm >= 5.0 test case
• Chris Lamb:
  • Support Android ROM boot.img introspection. (Closes: #884557)
• Holger Levsen:
  • Update Standards-Version to 4.1.2. No changes required.

strip-nondeterminism development

• Holger Levsen:
  • Update Standards-Version to 4.1.2. No changes required.

disorderfs development

• Holger Levsen:
  • Update Standards-Version to 4.1.2. No changes required.
  • d/control: Declare that disorderfs doesn’t need root to build.

reprotest development

• Holger Levsen:
  • d/control: Declare that strip-nondeterminism doesn’t need root to build.

reproducible-website development

• Chris Lamb:
  • rws3:
    • Huge number of formatting improvements, typo fixes, capitalisation
    • Add section headings to make splitting up easier.
• Holger Levsen:
  • rws3:
    • Add a disclaimer that this part of the website is a Work-In-Progress.
    • Split notes from each session into separate pages (6 sessions).
    • Other formatting and style fixes.
    • Link to Ludovic Courtès’ notes on GNU Guix.
• Ximin Luo:
  • rws3:
    • Format agenda.md to look like previous years’, and other fixes
    • Split notes from each session into separate pages (1 session).

jenkins.debian.net development

• Hans-Christoph Steiner:
  • reproducible fdroid: update cleanup_all to kill random daemons leftover
• Holger Levsen:
  • make dsa-check-running-kernel work with changes in Ubuntu LTS. WIP, not yet deployed to all the other hosts

Misc.

This week’s edition was written by Ximin Luo and Bernhard M. Wiedemann & reviewed by a bunch of Reproducible Builds folks on IRC & the mailing lists.