Here’s what happened in the Reproducible Builds effort between Sunday April 15 and Saturday April 21 2018:
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Holger Levsen announced preliminary result of our poll for our logo which was subsequently verified by Chris Lamb. The winner was “#6”, shown above.
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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.
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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.
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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
- Bernhard M. Wiedemann:
- Chris Lamb:
- #895737 filed against python-asdf (forwarded upstream).
- #896016 filed against strace (forwarded upstream).
- #896064 filed against libdazzle (forwarded upstream).
- #896138 filed against sphinxcontrib-autoprogram.
- #896139 filed against tcl-signal.
- #896441 filed against corosync (forwarded upstream).
- Rafael Laboissière:
- #895739 filed against psychtoolbox-3.
- Vagrant Cascadian:
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:
- Chris Lamb:
- Mattia Rizzolo:
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.