Reproducible Builds: Weekly report #138

Here’s what happened in the Reproducible Builds effort between Sunday December 10 and Saturday December 16 2017:

Upcoming events

The Reproducible Builds project are organising an assembly at 34C3 (the “Galactic Congress”) in Leipzig, Germany. We will informally meet every day at 13:37 UTC and would be delighted if you joined us there.

Packages reviewed and fixed, and bugs filed

• Adrian Bunk:
  • #884214 filed against purify.
  • #884295 filed against node-semver-diff.
  • #884477 filed against node-simple-swizzle.
• Alexander lynxis Couzens:
  • lua-i2c: Remove build timestamp (forwarded upstream).
• Bernhard M. Wiedemann:
  • arj merged, date - upstreamable?
  • libvips merged, date
  • osdlyrics date
  • ruby/rdoc drop gzip mtime
  • ruby/rdoc support SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH
  • rmt-server merged, drop build logs, CPU-count
  • sakura merged, png-timestamp
• Chris Lamb:
  • #884047 filed against bibledit.
  • #884254 filed against pydoctor (forwarded upstream).
  • #884256 filed against pysph.
  • #884402 filed against sonic-pi.
  • #884527 filed against parso (forwarded upstream).

Reviews of unreproducible packages

43 package reviews have been added, 48 have been updated and 51 have been removed in this week, adding to our knowledge about identified issues.

4 issue types have been updated:

• Chris Lamb:
  • Add a patch for nondeterminism_added_by_pyqt5_pyrcc5
  • Add patch for nondeterminism_in_documentation_generated_by_pydoctor toolchain issue.
  • Add new nondeterminism_in_documentation_generated_by_pydoctor toolchain issue.
• Christoph Berh:
  • sphinx_htmlhelp_readdir_sensitive is #884010

Weekly QA work

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

• Adrian Bunk (55)
• Andreas Beckmann (2)
• Laurent Bigonville (1)
• Michael Biebl (1)
• Pierre Saramito (2)

diffoscope development

• Juliana Oliveira Rodrigues:
  • Fix readelf exit code

reprotest development

Version 0.7.5, 0.7.6 and 0.7.7 was uploaded to unstable by Ximin Luo.

It included contributions already covered by posts of the previous weeks as well as new changes:

• Ximin Luo:
  • Fix nondeterministic num\_cpus-related test failures
  • Update to latest Standards-Version; no changes required
  • Bump version in setup.py.
  • Update debian/copyright and use HTTPS in debian/watch.

buildinfo.debian.net development

• Chris Lamb:
  • Don’t HTTP 500 if no request body.
  • Actually catch the TypeError: decode() argument 1 must be string, not None

reproducible-website development

• Holger Levsen:
  • Link preliminary notes
  • Add group photo
  • Cleanup some markup
  • Link agenda brains-torming session
  • Separate ogo-design notes
  • Move agenda to its own page
  • Add archive-formats notes
  • Include PDF version of report by Aspiration and link to it
• Daniel Kahn Gillmor:
  • Removed HTML-formatted table now that we have it in markdown
  • Added table for archive formats

jenkins.debian.net development

• Holger Levsen (ArchLinux support)
  • Scheduler:
    • Sleep at job end to prevent immediate restarts
    • Improve scheduler output
    • Don’t reschedule blacklisted packages
  • New features / enhancements, etc.:
    • Improve locking
    • Delete old package files after the new ones have been created
    • Deal with yet another way to build unreproducible packages
  • Bug-fixes:
    • Prevent concurrent builds of the same package
    • Use sudo to cleanup after the build
    • Ensure pkg.html files are world-readable
    • Fix conditional IRC message
    • Correctly output packgae name
    • Also detect FTBFS due to failing to source PKGBUILD files
  • Documentation/reporting:
    • Explain some (perceived) inconsistencies
    • Also announce current percentage on IRC
    • Shorten irc message
    • Disable irc notifications about unreproducible packages until we found a way to report status changes
  • Misc:
    • Unblacklist zathura
• Mattia Rizzolo:
  • Start moving build configuration to an .ini file
  • Do not bind-mount /dev and /dev/fs inside new chroots
  • Fix “future detection” now that we are close to 2018
  • common.py support library:
    • Move argparse handling before parsing the configuration
    • Allow passing parameters to query\_db()
    • Fix a debian hardcoding
    • Allow passing a distribution value to scripts
  • Documentation:
    • INSTALL: fix formatting
    • INSTALL: draft some documentation on how slaves are set up
  • Jenkins management:
    • Simplify ssh restrictions by using the new restrict option (see sshd(1))
    • Allow jenkins user to SSH to itself
    • Don’t rewrite HTTP requests for /descriptorByName endpoint

Misc.

This week’s edition was written by Alexander Couzens, Bernhard M. Wiedemann, Chris Lamb and Holger Levsen & reviewed by a bunch of Reproducible Builds folks on IRC & the mailing lists.