Here’s what happened in the Reproducible Builds effort between Sunday June 24 and Saturday June 30 2018:
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Bernhard M. Wiedemann wrote about reproducible builds in openSUSE and SLE.
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Mes, a Scheme-based compiler for our “sister” bootstrappable builds effort, announced their 0.16 release.
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Bernhard M. Wiedemann also wrote to our mailing list on his progress towards a reproducible GCC.
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Daniel Kahn Gillmor (dkg) wrote a blog post entitled “Protecting Software Updates” which touched on reproducible builds.
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A paper entitled “Automated Localization for Unreproducible Builds” was published by Zhilei Ren, He Jiang, Jifeng Xuan and Zijiang Yang from the Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, China.
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7 package reviews were been added, 3 have been updated and 5 have been removed in this week, adding to our knowledge about identified issues.
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Mattia Rizzolo updated our Jenkins-based testing framework that powers tests.reproducible-builds.org to mark the
hb0-armhf-rb.debian.netnode as offline. -
Santiago Torres arranged our next IRC meeting for the 17th of July at 16:00 UTC (agenda).
Packages reviewed and fixed, and bugs filed
diffoscope development
diffoscope versions 97 and 98 were uploaded to Debian unstable by Chris Lamb. They included contributions already covered in previous weeks as well as new ones from:
- Chris Lamb:
Chris Lamb also updated the SSL certificate for try.difoscope.org.
Authors
This week’s edition was written by Bernhard M. Wiedemann, Chris Lamb & reviewed by a bunch of Reproducible Builds folks on IRC & the mailing lists.
