What happened in the reproducible builds effort this week:
Toolchain fixes
After remarks from Guillem Jover, Lunar updated his patch adding generation of .buildinfo files in dpkg.
Packages fixed
The following packages have become reproducible due to changes in their build dependencies: dracut, ent, gdcm, guilt, lazarus, magit, matita, resource- agents, rurple- ng, shadow, shorewall- doc, udiskie.
The following packages became reproducible after getting fixed:
- disque/1.0~rc1-5 by Chris Lamb, noticed by Reiner Herrmann.
- dlm/4.0.4-2 by Ferenc Wágner.
- drbd-utils/8.9.6-1 by Apollon Oikonomopoulos.
- java-common/0.54 by by Emmanuel Bourg.
- libjibx1.2-java/1.2.6-1 by Emmanuel Bourg.
- libzstd/0.4.7-1 by Kevin Murray.
- python-releases/1.0.0-1 by Jan Dittberner.
- redis/2:3.0.7-2 by Chris Lamb, noticed by Reiner Herrmann.
- tetex-brev/4.22.github.20140417-3 by Petter Reinholdtsen.
Some uploads fixed some reproducibility issues, but not all of them:
- anarchism/14.0-4 by Holger Levsen.
- hhvm/3.11.1+dfsg-1 by Faidon Liambotis.
- netty/1:4.0.34-1 by Emmanuel Bourg.
Patches submitted which have not made their way to the archive yet:
- #813309 on lapack by Reiner Herrmann: removes the test log and sorts the files packed into the static library locale-independently.
- #813345 on elastix by akira: suggest to use the
$datetimeplaceholder in Doxygen footer. - #813892 on dietlibc by Reiner Herrmann: remove gzip headers, sort
md5sumsfile, and sort object files linked in static libraries. - #813912 on git by Reiner Herrmann: remove timestamps from documentation generated with asciidoc , remove gzip headers, and sort `md5sums and tclIndex files.
reproducible.debian.net
For the first time, we’ve reached more than 20,000 packages with reproducible
builds for sid on amd64 with our current test framework.
Vagrant Cascadian has set up another test
system for armhf. Enabling four more builder jobs to be
added to Jenkins. (h01ger)
Package reviews
233 reviews have been removed, 111 added and 86 updated in the previous week.
36 new FTBFS bugs were reported by Chris Lamb and Alastair McKinstry.
New issue: timestamps_in_manpages_generated_by_yat2m. The description for the blacklisted_on_jenkins issue has been improved. Some packages are also now tagged with blacklisted_on_jenkins_armhf_only.
Misc.
Steven Chamberlain gave an update on the status of FreeBSD and variants after the BSD devroom at FOSDEM’16. He also discussed how jails can be used for easier and faster reproducibility tests.
The video for h01ger’s talk in the main track of FOSDEM’16 about the reproducible ecosystem is now available.
