What happened in the reproducible builds effort between March 27th and April 2nd: Toolchain fixes

• Emmanuel Bourg uploaded ant/1.9.6-2 which makes the Tstamp task support the SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH variable, and the Javadoc task use en as the default locale if none was specified and SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH is set.

Packages fixed The following packages have become reproducible due to changes in their build dependencies: ctioga2, erlang-bitcask, libcommons-collections3-java, libjgoodies-animation-java, libjide-oss-java, octave-gsl, octave-interval, octave-io, octave-quaternion, octave-signal, octave-stk, segment, service-wrapper-java, sqlline, svnkit, uddi4j, velocity-tools. The following packages became reproducible after getting fixed:

• angular.js/1.3.20-3 uploaded by Laszlo Boszormenyi, patch by Dhole.
• boa-constructor/0.6.1-16 by Reiner Herrmann.
• fgetty/0.7-1 by Dmitry Bogatov.
• hexchat/2.12.0-1 uploaded by Jesse Rhodes, fixed upstream.
• littlewizard/1.2.2-4 uploaded by Kari Pahula, original patch by Reiner Herrmann.
• logback/1:1.1.6-1 by Emmanuel Bourg.
• pcsxr/1.9.94-2 by James Cowgill.
• pybtex/0.19-2 by Daniel Stender.
• python-structlog/16.0.0-1 by Filippo Giunchedi.
• sbmltoolbox/4.1.0-3 by Afif Elghraoui, original patch by Reiner Herrmann.
• tiles/2.2.2-7 by Emmanuel Bourg.

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

• dash/0.5.8-2.2 uploaded by Niels Thykier, original patch by Lunar.
• gle-graphics/4.2.5-4 by Christian T. Steigies.
• prospector/0.11.7-6 by Daniel Stender.
• therion/5.3.16-10 by Wookey.
• vim/2:7.4.1689-1 uploaded by James McCoy, original patch by Reiner Herrmann.

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

• #783239 on kexec-tools by Lunar: follow-up patch to cope with locale variations.
• #819347 on starvoyager by Sascha Steinbiss: sort the list of input object files.
• #819352 on xpdf by Sascha Steinbiss: sort the list of linked object files.
• #819512 on breeze by Dhole: force grep to treat all files as text to avoid locale-related issues.
• #819726 on ckbuilder by boyska: add support for SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH.
• #819767 on libtool by rain1: removes extra timestamps from the build system, ensure a stable file order when creating the source archive, and replace uses of the hostname command with the fixed string "localhost".

tests.reproducible-builds.org The i386 builders are now testing packages on i386 for reproducibility. It will probably take 4 weeks until everything has been build twice, on this arch. (h01ger) Package reviews 52 reviews have been removed, 24 added and 4 updated in the previous week. Chris Lamb reported 13 new FTBFS. New issue: copyright_year_in_comments_generated_by_ckbuilder. Misc. This week's edition was mostly written by Lunar, with some help by Reiner Herrmann and h01ger.

Well, here are the stats for the final week of the DUCK challenge as well as DebConf15:

• Yao Wei uploaded big-cursor
• Denis Briand abook
• Salvatore Bonaccorso uploaded libtext-simpletable-perl, libstring-bufferstack-perl and libcarp-clan-perl
• Sandro Tois uploaded dot2txt
• Florian Schlichting uploaded libxml-dom-perl, libtie-array-sorted-perl, libvalidate-net-perl and libtext-typography-perl
• Enrico Tassi uploaded lua-sec
• Bas Couwenberg uploaded modestmaps-py
• Riku Voipo uploaded device-tree-compiler
• Lucas Kanashiro uploaded libclass-gomor-perl and libclass-c3-adopt-perl
• Bernd Zeimez uploaded lua-json
• Olivier Sallou uploaded biojava4-live
• Kari Pahula uploaded gearhead
• Gregor Hermann uploaded libnet-tclink-perl
• Jakub Wilk uploaded pebl

So we had 21 packages fixed and uploaded by 14 different uploaders. People were really working hard on this during DebConf. A big "Thank You" to you!! Since the start of this challenge, a total of 89 packages, were fixed. Here is a quick overview:

	Week 1	Week 2	Week 3	Week 4	Week 5	Week 6	Week 7
# Packages	10	15	10	14	10	9	21
Total	10	25	35	49	59	68	89

Thank you all for participating - either on purpose or "accidentially": Some people were really surprised as i sneaked up on them at DebConf15, confronting them with a green lighter! I just tried to put even more fun into Debian, i hope this worked out Pevious articles are here: Week 1, Week 2, Week 3, Week 4, Week 5,Week 6.

Prepared an upload for the new upstream version of tuxmath (two small bugfixes only), who thankfully got sponsored again and immediatly by by Kari Pahula - thanks again! A new upstream maintainer for tuxtype has also been found, btw & yay!

Finished setting up failive.debian.net, which in future will automatically build two fai-cds (currently only one), for fully automatatic installation of the booted system. To better reflect that those are not the usual live-cds, the vhost will soon be renamed to faicd.debian.net...

I also want to mention edulive.debian.net here, though I have done nothing about it today. This should become a replacement for the current handmade live-cd, but currently its stalled by ENOTIME and these two RC bugs.

Speaking of debian-edu, I spent some parts of this afternoon to create this statuspage for the skolelinux repository which got me more familar with dak and which will hopefully help us keeping the archive in a good state :-)

Testing d-i RC1 on powerpc newworld was boring: d-i worked flawlessly and the g-i mini.iso didn't boot. Will reburn and retry, but I don't have great hopes on that one. The mini.iso from beginning of November worked nicely though, so it's a minor issue.