Reproducible Builds: Weekly report #153

Here’s what happened in the Reproducible Builds effort between Sunday March 25 and Saturday March 31 2018:

• Holger Levsen spoke at Easterhegg 2018 in Würzburg, Germany on Reproducible Builds (German video).

• Wikidata linked to an example metadata query for diffoscope’s file formats (original Tweet).

• Jean-Michel Vourgère submitted Debian bug #894441 against dpkg, requesting that SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH must ignore bin-NMU (Non-maintainer upload) debian/changelog entries as this can break assumptions in Multi-Arch: same packages.

• The Angular Javscript framework announced that their latest release is reproducible using Bazel.

• Mattia Rizzolo updated our Jenkins-based testing framework to not rebuild the HTML index when running in “dry-run” mode.

• diffoscope version 93 was uploaded to Debian unstable by Chris Lamb. It included contributions already convered in posts in previous weeks, specifically closing #893443.

Patches filed

• Bernhard M. Wiedemann:
  • surfraw (date)
  • kurso-de-esperanto (.png timestamps)
• Chris Lamb:
  • #894215 filed against python-setuptools.
  • #894466 filed against python-fisx.
  • #894493 filed against lexicon.
  • #889315 reopened against designate.

In addition, build failure bugs were reported by:

• “r. ductor” (1)
• Adrian Bunk (42)

Reviews of unreproducible packages

59 package reviews have been added, 44 have been updated and 35 have been removed in this week, adding to our knowledge about identified issues.

One issue type was added:

• randomness_in_python_setuptools_pkg_info toolchain issue.

Two issue types were removed:

• randomness_in_gcj_output & gcj_captures_build_path. […]

Misc.

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