Reproducible Builds: Weekly report #146

Here’s what happened in the Reproducible Builds effort between Sunday February 4 and Saturday February 10 2018:

Media coverage

• On February 7th, Christos Zoulas gave at talk entitled Reproducible builds on NetBSD at the New York City *BSD User Group.

Packages reviewed and fixed, and bugs filed

• Chris Lamb:
  • #889565 filed against libical3.
  • #889637 filed against mailman.
  • #890027 filed against librsvg (forwarded upstream).
  • #890036 filed against juce.
  • #890052 filed against nsf.
  • #890053 filed against tkmpeg.
  • #885408 (re-filed) against multipath-tools.

Reviews of unreproducible packages

63 package reviews have been added, 26 have been updated and 19 have been removed in this week, adding to our knowledge about identified issues.

A new issue type have been added:

• timestamps_in_pdf_generated_by_rsvg_convert

Weekly QA work

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

• Adrian Bunk (34)
• Antonio Terceiro (1)
• James Cowgill (1)
• Matthias Klose (1)

diffoscope development

• Chris Lamb:
  • Add support for comparing binary XML schemas
  • Drop debugging code in Android tests
• Mattia Rizzolo:
  • Wrap some lines

In addition, Juliana—our Outreachy intern—continues her work on parallel processing.

disorderfs development

• Chris Lamb:
  • Override no-upstream-changelog lintian warning
  • Use HTTPS format URI in debian/copyright

jenkins.debian.net development

• Mattia Rizzolo:
  • Correct reference to IRC channel
  • Update link to NetBSDs src Git repository

Misc.

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