What happened in the reproducible builds effort this week:
Toolchain fixes
- Ben Hutchings uploaded linux-tools/4.2-1 which makes the tarball generated by
genorig.pyreproducible.
Packages fixed
The following 22 packages became reproducible due to changes in their build dependencies: breathe, cdi- api, geronimo- jpa-2.0-spec, geronimo- validation-1.0-spec, gradle-propdeps-plugin, jansi, javaparser, libjsr311-api- java, mac- widgets, mockito, mojarra, pastescript, plexus- utils2, powerline, python- psutil, python- sfml, python- tldap, pythondialog, tox, trident, truffle, zookeeper.
The following packages became reproducible after getting fixed:
- cloudprint/0.14-1 uploaded by David Steele, original patch by Chris Lamb.
- cpl-plugin-sinfo/2.6.5+dfsg-2 by Ole Streicher.
- fonts-stix/1.1.1-4 uploaded by Hugo Lefeuvre, original patch by Dhole.
- gstreamermm-1.0/1.4.3+dfsg-5 by Philip Rinn.
- hspell/1.2-3 uploaded by Tzafrir Cohen, original patch by Reiner Herrmann.
- libmodule-extractuse-perl/0.33-2 by gregor herrmann.
- mariadb-10.0/10.0.21-1 by Otto Kekäläinen.
- mkvtoolnix/8.4.0-1 uploaded by Christian Marillat, fixed upstream.
- mlpack/1.0.12-5 by Barak A. Pearlmutter.
- module-assistant/0.11.8 by Andreas Beckmann.
- pitivi/0.94-4 uploaded by Sebastian Dröge, reported by Scott Kitterman.
- privoxy/3.0.23-4 by Roland Rosenfeld.
- qtop/2.3.1-1 uploaded by Hugo Lefeuvre, fixed upstream.
- seyon/2.20c-32 by Santiago Vila.
- subvertpy/0.9.3-2 by Jelmer Vernooij.
- twitter-bootstrap/2.0.2+dfsg-8 by Santiago Vila, reported by Chris Lamb.
- vdr-plugin-remote/0.7.0-1 by Tobias Grimm.
Some uploads fixed some reproducibility issues but not all of them:
- fldigi/3.23.01-1 by Kamal Mostafa.
Patches submitted which have not made their way to the archive yet:
- #799871 on console-data by Chris Lamb: grep all keymap files as text.
- #800007 on anarchism by Holger Levsen: use C locale when converting HTML to text files.
- #800107 on dutch by Chris Lamb: grep wordlist files as text.
diffoscope development
The changes to make diffoscope run under Python 3, along with many small fixes, entered the archive with version 35 on September 21th.
Another release was made the very next day fixed two encoding-related issues discovered when running diffoscope on more Debian packages.
strip-nondeterminism development
Version 0.12.0 now preserves file
permissions on modified zip files and
dh_strip_nondeterminism has been made compatible with older
debhelper.
disorderfs development
Version 0.3.0 implemented a “multi- user” mode that was required to build Debian packages using disorderfs. It also added command line options to control the ordering of files in directory (either shuffled or reversed) and another to do arbitrary changes to the reported space used by files on disk.
A couple days later, version 0.4.0
was released to support locks, flush, fsync, fsyncdir, read_buf, and
write_buf. Almost all known issues have now been fixed.
reproducible.debian.net
disorderfs is now used during the second build. This makes file ordering issue very easy to identify as such. (h01ger)
Work has been done on making the distributed build setup more reliable. (h01ger)
Documentation update
Matt Kraii fixed the example on how to fix issues related to dates in Sphinx. Recent Sphinx versions should also be compatible with SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH.
Package reviews
53 reviews have been removed, 85 added and 13 updated this week.
46 packages failing to build from source has been identified by Chris Lamb, Chris West, and Niko Tyni. Chris Lamb was the lucky reporter of bug #800000 on vdr-plugin- prefermenu.
Issues related to disorderfs are being tracked with a new issue.
