Reproducible Builds: Weekly report #158

Here’s what happened in the Reproducible Builds effort between Sunday April 29 and Saturday May 5 2018:

• The Turnkey Linux Debian-derivative announced that their v15.0 release contains reproducible packages.

• Chris Lamb uplodeded version 94 of diffoscope (our in-depth “diff-on-steroids” utility which helps us diagnose reproducibility issues in packages) to Debian and PyPI. It includes contributions already convered in previous weeks as well as:

  • Update tests to prevent FTBFS under file 5.33. (Closes: #897099)
  • Remove unused test1.txt test data file.

• 15 package reviews were added, 38 were updated and 54 were removed in this week, adding to our knowledge about identified issues. A new “member_search_index_json” toolchain issue was added.

• In addition, build failure bugs were reported by Adrian Bunk (1) and Chris Lamb (1).

Packages reviewed and fixed, and bugs filed

• Chris Lamb:

  • #897902 filed against tweeny (sent upstream).
  • #897904 filed against libzstd (sent upstream).
  • #864082 updated for fontconfig (sent upstream).

• Eli Schwartz

  • wavemon (builddate timestamp)

Misc.

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