What happened in the Reproducible Builds effort between Sunday August 28 and Saturday September 3 2016: Media coverage Antonio Terceiro blogged about testing build reprodubility with debrepro . GSoC and Outreachy updates The next round is being planned now: see their page with a timeline and participating organizations listing. Maybe you want to participate this time? Then please reach out to us as soon as possible! Packages reviewed and fixed, and bugs filed The following packages have addressed reproducibility issues in other packages:

• ruby-ronn/0.7.3-5 by Antonio Terceiro, original patch by Chris Lamb.

The following updated packages have become reproducible in our current test setup after being fixed:

• check-all-the-things/2016.09.03 by Paul Wise, original patch by Chris Lamb.
• e2fsprogs/1.43.2-2 by Theodore Y. Ts'o.
• gnupg1/1.4.21-1 by Daniel Kahn Gillmor, #834755 by Chris Lamb.
• gnupg2/2.1.15-2 by Daniel Kahn Gillmor.
• inform6-compiler/6.33-2 by Ben Finney.
• libhat-trie/0.0~git25f9e946-2 by Sascha Steinbiss.
• mrd6/0.9.6-13 by Thomas Preud'homme, original patch by Reiner Herrmann.
• safecat/1.13-3 by Teemu Hukkanen, original patch by Reiner Herrmann.
• shibboleth-sp2/2.6.0+dfsg1-1 by Ferenc W gner.
• sweethome3d-furniture-editor/1.15-2 by Markus Koschany, original patch by Reiner Herrmann.
• traceroute/1:2.1.0-2 by Laszlo Boszormenyi, original patch by Reiner Herrmann.
• wise/2.4.1-19 by Sascha Steinbiss.
• xmltooling/1.6.0-2 by Ferenc W gner.

The following updated packages appear to be reproducible now, for reasons we were not able to figure out yet. (Relevant changelogs did not mention reproducible builds.)

• comitup/0.5-1 by David Steele.
• dita-ot/1.5.3-2 by Mathieu Malaterre.
• dput/0.10.2 by Ben Finney.
• gnome-settings-daemon/3.21.90-2 by Michael Biebl.
• libkf5kipi/4:16.08.0-1 by Pino Toscano.
• libmpc/2:0.1~r475-2 by James Cowgill.
• taurus/4.0.1+dfsg-1 by Picca Fr d ric-Emmanuel.
• tcpwatch-httpproxy/1.3.1-2 by Toni Mueller.

The following 4 packages were not changed, but have become reproducible due to changes in their build-dependencies:

• djangorestframework
• roarplaylistd
• zope-maildrophost
• zope-replacesupport

Some uploads have addressed some reproducibility issues, but not all of them:

• amanda/1:3.3.9-1 by Jose M Calhariz.
• dispcalgui/3.1.6.0-2 by Christian Marillat, original patch by Chris Lamb.
• fastqtl/2.184+dfsg-4 by Dylan A ssi.
• grass/7.0.5~rc1-1~exp1 by Bas Couwenberg.
• kdevplatform/5.0-1 by Pino Toscano, original patch by Scarlett Clark.
• leveldb/1.19-1 by Alessio Treglia.
• libdevel-cover-perl/1.23-2 by gregor herrmann, original patch by Chris Lamb.
• linux/4.7.2-1 by Ben Hutchings, #830268 by Reiner Herrmann.
• lmms/1.1.3-4 by Javier Serrano.
• mayavi2/4.4.3-2.2 by Anton Gladky.
• opensaml2/2.6.0-2 by Ferenc W gner.
• perl/5.22.2-4 by Dominic Hargreaves, original patch and original patch by Chris Lamb.
• radare2/0.10.5+dfsg-1 by Sebastian Reichel, original patch by Chris Lamb.
• splint/3.1.2.dfsg1-3 by Rapha l Hertzog, original patch by Chris Lamb.

Patches submitted that have not made their way to the archive yet:

• #835673 filed against dacs by Chris Lamb.
• #835805 filed against dh-python by Chris Lamb.
• #835985 filed against nmh by Chris Lamb.
• #836609 filed against nostalgy by Chris Lamb.
• #835807 filed against pygtksourceview by Chris Lamb.
• #836004 filed against python-gflags by Chris Lamb.
• #835816 filed against rt-extension-customfieldsonupdate by Chris Lamb.
• #835834 filed against ruby-compass by Chris Lamb.
• #836605 filed against torque by Chris Lamb.
• #833176 filed against trafficserver by Reiner Herrmann.

Reviews of unreproducible packages 706 package reviews have been added, 22 have been updated and 16 have been removed in this week, adding to our knowledge about identified issues. 5 issue types have been added:

• timestamps_in_documentation_generated_by_ocamldoc
• timestamp_in_enc_files_added_by_texlive_fontinst
• cython_captures_build_path
• timestamps_in_perllocal_pod_manpages_generated_by_perl_extutils_mm_unix
• uname_output_in_python_debugging_symbols_caused_by_sysconfig_getplatform

1 issue type has been updated:

• timestamp_in_enc_files_added_by_texlive_fontinst

Weekly QA work FTBFS bugs have been reported by:

• Chris Lamb (8)
• Lucas Nussbaum (3)

diffoscope development diffoscope development on the next version (60) continued in git, taking in contributions from:

• Mattia Rizzolo:
  • Better and more thorough testing
  • Improvements to packaging
  • Improvements to the ppu comparator

strip-nondeterminism development Mattia Rizzolo uploaded strip-nondeterminism 0.023-2~bpo8+1 to jessie-backports. A new version of strip-nondeterminism 0.024-1 was uploaded to unstable by Chris Lamb. It included contributions from:

• Chris Lamb:
  • Improve code quality of zip, jar, ar, png processors
• AYANOKOUZI, Ryuunosuke:
  • Preserve file attribute information of target file (#836075)

Holger added jobs on jenkins.debian.net to run testsuites on every commit. There is one job for the master branch and one for the other branches. disorderfs development Holger added jobs on jenkins.debian.net to run testsuites on every commit. There is one job for the master branch and one for the other branches. tests.reproducible-builds.org Debian: We now vary the GECOS records of the two build users. Thanks to Paul Wise for providing the patch. Misc. This week's edition was written by Ximin Luo, Holger Levsen & Chris Lamb and reviewed by a bunch of Reproducible Builds folks on IRC.

The following contributors got their Debian Developer accounts in the last two months:

• Josu Ortega (josue)
• Mathias Behrle (mbehrle)
• Sascha Steinbiss (satta)
• Lucas Kanashiro (kanashiro)
• Vasudev Sathish Kamath (vasudev)
• Dima Kogan (dkogan)
• Rafael Laboissi re (rafael)
• David Kalnischkies (donkult)
• Marcin Kulisz (kula)
• David Steele (steele
• Herbert Parentes Fortes Neto (hpfn)
• Ond ej Nov (onovy)
• Donald Norwood (donald)
• Neutron Soutmun (neutrons)
• Steve Kemp (skx)

The following contributors were added as Debian Maintainers in the last two months:

• Sean Whitton
• Tiago Ilieve
• Jean Baptiste Favre
• Adrian Vondendriesch
• Alkis Georgopoulos
• Michael Hudson-Doyle
• Roger Shimizu
• SZ Lin
• Leo Singer
• Peter Colberg

Congratulations!

What happened in the reproducible builds effort this week: Toolchain fixes

• Ben Hutchings uploaded linux-tools/4.2-1 which makes the tarball generated by genorig.py reproducible.

Packages fixed The following 22 packages became reproducible due to changes in their build dependencies: breathe, cdi-api, geronimo-jpa-2.0-spec, geronimo-validation-1.0-spec, gradle-propdeps-plugin, jansi, javaparser, libjsr311-api-java, mac-widgets, mockito, mojarra, pastescript, plexus-utils2, powerline, python-psutil, python-sfml, python-tldap, pythondialog, tox, trident, truffle, zookeeper. The following packages became reproducible after getting fixed:

• cloudprint/0.14-1 uploaded by David Steele, original patch by Chris Lamb.
• cpl-plugin-sinfo/2.6.5+dfsg-2 by Ole Streicher.
• fonts-stix/1.1.1-4 uploaded by Hugo Lefeuvre, original patch by Dhole.
• gstreamermm-1.0/1.4.3+dfsg-5 by Philip Rinn.
• hspell/1.2-3 uploaded by Tzafrir Cohen, original patch by Reiner Herrmann.
• libmodule-extractuse-perl/0.33-2 by gregor herrmann.
• mariadb-10.0/10.0.21-1 by Otto Kek l inen.
• mkvtoolnix/8.4.0-1 uploaded by Christian Marillat, fixed upstream.
• mlpack/1.0.12-5 by Barak A. Pearlmutter.
• module-assistant/0.11.8 by Andreas Beckmann.
• pitivi/0.94-4 uploaded by Sebastian Dr ge, reported by Scott Kitterman.
• privoxy/3.0.23-4 by Roland Rosenfeld.
• qtop/2.3.1-1 uploaded by Hugo Lefeuvre, fixed upstream.
• seyon/2.20c-32 by Santiago Vila.
• subvertpy/0.9.3-2 by Jelmer Vernooij.
• twitter-bootstrap/2.0.2+dfsg-8 by Santiago Vila, reported by Chris Lamb.
• vdr-plugin-remote/0.7.0-1 by Tobias Grimm.

Some uploads fixed some reproducibility issues but not all of them:

• fldigi/3.23.01-1 by Kamal Mostafa.

Patches submitted which have not made their way to the archive yet:

• #799871 on console-data by Chris Lamb: grep all keymap files as text.
• #800007 on anarchism by Holger Levsen: use C locale when converting HTML to text files.
• #800107 on dutch by Chris Lamb: grep wordlist files as text.

diffoscope development The changes to make diffoscope run under Python 3, along with many small fixes, entered the archive with version 35 on September 21th. Another release was made the very next day fixed two encoding-related issues discovered when running diffoscope on more Debian packages. strip-nondeterminism development Version 0.12.0 now preserves file permissions on modified zip files and dh_strip_nondeterminism has been made compatible with older debhelper. disorderfs development Version 0.3.0 implemented a multi-user mode that was required to build Debian packages using disorderfs. It also added command line options to control the ordering of files in directory (either shuffled or reversed) and another to do arbitrary changes to the reported space used by files on disk. A couple days later, version 0.4.0 was released to support locks, flush, fsync, fsyncdir, read_buf, and write_buf. Almost all known issues have now been fixed. reproducible.debian.net disorderfs is now used during the second build. This makes file ordering issue very easy to identify as such. (h01ger) Work has been done on making the distributed build setup more reliable. (h01ger) Documentation update Matt Kraii fixed the example on how to fix issues related to dates in Sphinx. Recent Sphinx versions should also be compatible with SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH. Package reviews 53 reviews have been removed, 85 added and 13 updated this week. 46 packages failing to build from source has been identified by Chris Lamb, Chris West, and Niko Tyni. Chris Lamb was the lucky reporter of bug #800000 on vdr-plugin-prefermenu. Issues related to disorderfs are being tracked with a new issue.