Here’s what happened in the Reproducible Builds effort between Sunday February 11 and Saturday February 17 2018:
Media coverage
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ActiveState are running a “Golang Roundtable” on February 22nd to discuss reproducible builds, environment configuration & dependency management (via Pete Garcin).
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Holger Levsen announced there will be a MiniDebConf in Hamburg, Germany from May 16th to 20th where many reproducible builds folks will be in attendance. Whilst this is foremost a “Debian” event, we do hope that people working on Reproducible Builds in other projects will attend as well - please register!
Reproducible work in other projects
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The Symfony PHP framework announced that their latest release is reproducible.
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Maria Camenzuli wrote about Reproducible Builds in Java.
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Helmut Grohne used reproducible builds practices to remove unnecessary build-dependencies in the kalzium package.
Packages reviewed and fixed, and bugs filed
- Adrian Bunk:
- #890122 filed against kcompletion.
- #890431 filed against grub2.
- Chris Lamb:
- #890104 filed against octave-geometry.
- #890193 filed against sleekxmpp.
- #890280 filed against ufo2ft. (upstream)
- #890311 filed against dashel.
- #890312 filed against desmume.
- #890313 filed against awl.
- #890314 filed against cpl-plugin-visir.
- #890486 filed against keepassxc.
- #890487 filed against wreport.
- #890551 filed against mblaze.
- #890577 filed against tkgate.
- #890616 filed against dialign-t.
- #890618 filed against scowl.
- #890620 filed against ply.
- #890651 filed against xastir.
- RediSearch (upstream)
- Promise.js (upstream)
Various previous patches were merged upstream:
Reviews of unreproducible packages
38 package reviews have been added, 27 have been updated and 13 have been removed in this week, adding to our knowledge about identified issues.
4 issue types have been added:
- python-ply_lextokens
- build_dir_in_tags_generated_by_doxygen
- randomness_in_berkeley_db_files
- timestamp_in_fonts_generated_by_ufo2ft
One issue type has been updated:
Weekly QA work
During our reproducibility testing, FTBFS bugs have been detected and reported by:
- Adrian Bunk (24)
- Boyuan Yang (1)
- Cédric Boutillier (1)
- Jeremy Bicha (1)
- Matthias Klose (1)
diffoscope development
- Chris Lamb:
- Add support for comparing Berkeley DB files (#890528). This is currently incomplete because the Berkeley DB libraries do not return the same uid/hash reliably (it returns “random” memory contents) so we must strip those from the human-readable output.
Website development
- Holger Levsen:
- Add reference to Symfony.com; thanks to Javier Eguiluz for the patch.
Misc.
This week’s edition was written by Chris Lamb and Holger Levsen & reviewed by a bunch of Reproducible Builds folks on IRC & the mailing lists.
