What happened in the reproducible builds effort between March 27th and April 2nd:
Toolchain fixes
- Emmanuel Bourg uploaded ant/1.9.6-2 which makes the Tstamp task support the
SOURCE_DATE_EPOCHvariable, and the Javadoc task useenas the default locale if none was specified andSOURCE_DATE_EPOCHis set.
Packages fixed
The following packages have become reproducible due to changes in their build dependencies: ctioga2, erlang-bitcask, libcommons-collections3-java, libjgoodies-animation-java, libjide-oss-java, octave-gsl, octave-interval, octave-io, octave-quaternion, octave-signal, octave-stk, segment, service-wrapper-java, sqlline, svnkit, uddi4j, velocity-tools.
The following packages became reproducible after getting fixed:
- angular.js/1.3.20-3 uploaded by Laszlo Boszormenyi, patch by Dhole.
- boa-constructor/0.6.1-16 by Reiner Herrmann.
- fgetty/0.7-1 by Dmitry Bogatov.
- hexchat/2.12.0-1 uploaded by Jesse Rhodes, fixed upstream.
- littlewizard/1.2.2-4 uploaded by Kari Pahula, original patch by Reiner Herrmann.
- logback/1:1.1.6-1 by Emmanuel Bourg.
- pcsxr/1.9.94-2 by James Cowgill.
- pybtex/0.19-2 by Daniel Stender.
- python-structlog/16.0.0-1 by Filippo Giunchedi.
- sbmltoolbox/4.1.0-3 by Afif Elghraoui, original patch by Reiner Herrmann.
- tiles/2.2.2-7 by Emmanuel Bourg.
Some uploads fixed some reproducibility issues, but not all of them:
- dash/0.5.8-2.2 uploaded by Niels Thykier, original patch by Lunar.
- gle-graphics/4.2.5-4 by Christian T. Steigies.
- prospector/0.11.7-6 by Daniel Stender.
- therion/5.3.16-10 by Wookey.
- vim/2:7.4.1689-1 uploaded by James McCoy, original patch by Reiner Herrmann.
Patches submitted which have not made their way to the archive yet:
- #783239 on kexec-tools by Lunar: follow-up patch to cope with locale variations.
- #819347 on starvoyager by Sascha Steinbiss: sort the list of input object files.
- #819352 on xpdf by Sascha Steinbiss: sort the list of linked object files.
- #819512 on breeze by Dhole: force grep to treat all files as text to avoid locale-related issues.
- #819726 on ckbuilder by boyska: add support for
SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH. - #819767 on libtool by rain1: removes extra timestamps from the build system, ensure a stable file order when creating the source archive, and replace uses of the
hostnamecommand with the fixed string “localhost”.
tests.reproducible-builds.org
The i386 builders are now testing packages on i386 for reproducibility. It will probably take 4 weeks until everything has been build twice, on this arch. (h01ger)
Package reviews
52 reviews have been removed, 24 added and 4 updated in the previous week.
Chris Lamb reported 13 new FTBFS.
New issue: copyright_year_in_comments_generated_by_ckbuilder.
Misc.
This week’s edition was mostly written by Lunar, with some help by Reiner Herrmann and h01ger.
