Reproducible Builds: Weekly report #122

Here’s what happened in the Reproducible Builds effort between Sunday August 20 and Saturday August 26 2017:

Debian development

• “Packages should build reproducibly” was released in Debian Policy 4.1.0.0. For more background please see last week’s post.
• A patch by Chris Lamb to make Dpkg::Substvars warnings output deterministic was merged by Guillem Jover. This helps the Reproducible Builds effort as it removes unnecessary differences in logs of two package builds. (#870221)

Packages reviewed and fixed, and bugs filed

Forwarded upstream:

• Debian bug #872728 filed against desktop-file-utils. Filed upstream. (lamby, via a reproducibility issue in Tails).
• Debian bug #872729 filed against gtk+2.0. Filed upstream. (lamby, via a reproducibility issue in Tails).
• sawfish:
  • SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH
  • .tar.gz (merged)
  • Sorting (merged)
• librep:
  • SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH (merged)
  • Sorting (merged)
• zstd (merged) sort
• lirc (solved)
• autogen (tar.gz)

Accepted repoducibility NMUs in Debian:

• Chris Lamb:
  • jsmath-fonts (for bug #792319).
  • xvier (for bug #777330).
• Mattia Rizzolo:
  • aewan (for bug #842864).

Other issues:

• Adrian Bunk:
  • #872675 filed against pdp.
  • #872678 filed against gem.
  • #872860 filed against csound.
  • #872918 filed against sketch.
• Dmitry Shachnev:
  • #872992 filed against pytest-qt.

Reviews of unreproducible packages

16 package reviews have been added, 38 have been updated and 48 have been removed in this week, adding to our knowledge about identified issues.

2 issue types have been updated:

• Add new captures_build_dir_in_qmake_prl_files toolchain issue (Chris Lamb)
• Remove ftbfs_uninvestigated_big_packages (Mattia Rizzolo)

Weekly QA work

During our reproducibility testing, FTBFS bugs have been detected and reported by:

• Adrian Bunk (37)
• Dmitry Shachnev (1)
• James Cowgill (1)

diffoscope development

• Chris Lamb:
  • Tidy diffoscope.progress a little.
• Santiago Torres-Arias:
  • diffoscope.progress: Support the new fork of python-progressbar. (#873157)

disorderfs development

Version 0.5.2-1 was uploaded to unstable by Ximin Luo. It included contributions from:

• Ximin Luo:
  • Add -q,–quiet CLI option
  • Update to latest Standards-Version; no changes required
  • Update debian/changelog
  • Update NEWS
  • Adopt as team maintenance
  • Add my signing key only
  • Add instructions for Debian release
• Holger Levsen:
  • Add myself to uploaders
  • Move package to ‘optional’ section

reprotest development

• Ximin Luo:
  • Don’t vary user_group in the tests - it’s not usually possible in automated builders
  • Default verbosity to 0 and silence disorderfs if set
  • Add the ability to vary the user. (#872412)
  • Add TODO

Misc.

This week’s edition was written — in alphabetical order — by Bernhard M. Wiedemann, Chris Lamb, Mattia Rizzolo & reviewed by a bunch of Reproducible Builds folks on IRC & the mailing lists.