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Reproducible Builds: Weekly report #156

Published: Apr 24, 2018.


Here’s what happened in the Reproducible Builds effort between Sunday April 15 and Saturday April 21 2018:

  • Holger Levsen announced preliminary result of our poll for our logo which was subsequently verified by Chris Lamb. The winner was “#6”, shown above.

  • Chris Lamb will present at foss-north 2018 on Monday April 23rd in Gothenburg, Sweden to speak about diffoscope, our in-depth “diff-on-steroids” to analyse reproducible issues in packages. He will then be keynoting at FLOSSUK 2018 in Edinburgh, Scotland on April 26th to speak about reproducible builds more generally.

  • Jan Bundesmann, Reiner Herrmann and Holger Levsen wrote an article about Reproducible Builds titled Aus der Schablone (“From the template”) for the May issue of the German “iX” magazine.

  • Holger Levsen began a discussion with the Debian System Administrators regarding redirecting this blog in the future away from the (deprecated) Alioth service. Chris Lamb subsequently started on the migration work.

Packages reviewed and fixed, and bugs filed

In addition, Chris Lamb’s patch to the Freeland VPN client was merged upstream and build failure bugs were reported by Adrian Bunk (48), Paul Gevers (5) and Rafael Laboissière (1).

jenkins.debian.net development

A large number of changes were made to our Jenkins-based testing framework, including:

Reviews of unreproducible packages

43 package reviews have been added, 49 have been updated and 97 have been removed in this week, adding to our knowledge about identified issues.

One new issue was added by Chris Lamb: build_path_in_index_files_generated_by_qdoc. In addition, three issue types were removed (random_ispell_hash_files, randomness_in_python_setuptools_pkg_info & timestamps_in_documentation_generated_by_asciidoctora) and one was updated (timestamp_in_pear_registry_files).

Misc.

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


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