Here’s what happened in the Reproducible Builds effort between Sunday March 26 and Saturday April 1 2017:
Media coverage
Sylvain Beucler wrote a follow-up post Practical basics of reproducible builds 2, which like last weeks article is about his experiences making software build reproducibly.
Reproducible work in other projects
Colin Watson started writing a
patch
to make launchpad store .buildinfo files. (It’s not yet deployed.)
Toolchain development and fixes
Ximin Luo continued to work on BUILD_PATH_PREFIX_MAP patches for GCC
6 and
dpkg.
Packages reviewed and fixed, and bugs filed
Chris Lamb:
- #858926 filed against vine, forwarded upstream.
- #859194 filed against neutron.
- #859256 filed against golang-github-lunny-log.
- #859294 filed against hunspell-dict-ko.
- #859299 filed against dactyl.
- #859300 filed against crac.
- #859302 filed against debirf.
Mattia Rizzolo:
- #859058 filed against telegram-desktop.
Reviews of unreproducible packages
49 package reviews have been added, 25 have been updated and 42 have been removed in this week, adding to our knowledge about identified issues.
1 issue type has been updated:
Weekly QA work
During our reproducibility testing, FTBFS bugs have been detected and reported by:
- Chris Lamb (4)
- Mattia Rizzolo (1)
diffoscope development
diffoscope 81 was uploaded to experimental by Chris Lamb. It included contributions from:
- Chris Lamb
- Correct meaningless “1234-content” metadata when introspecting files within archives. This was a regression since #854723 due to the use of auto-incrementing on-disk filenames. (Closes: #858223)
- Ximin Luo
- Improve ISO9660/DOS/MBR check.
reprotest development
reprotest development continued in git, including contributions from:
- Ximin Luo:
- Preserve directory structure when copying artifacts.
buildinfo.debian.net development
buildinfo.debian.net development continued in git, including contributions from:
- Chris Lamb:
- Tidy rejection of supported formats.
- Don’t parse “Format:” header as the source package version.
reproducible-website development
Holger switched reproducible-builds.org and www.reproducible-builds.org to letsencrypt certificates.
Misc.
This week’s edition was written by Ximin Luo and Holger Levsen & reviewed by a bunch of Reproducible Builds folks on IRC & the mailing lists.
