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17 April 2017

Sylvain Beucler: Practical basics of reproducible builds 3

On my quest to generate reproducible standalone binaries for GNU FreeDink, I met new friends but currently lie defeated by an unexpected enemy... Episode 1: Episode 2:
First, the random build differences when using -Wl,--no-insert-timestamp were explained.
peanalysis shows random build dates: 
$ reprotest 'i686-w64-mingw32.static-gcc hello.c -I /opt/mxe/usr/i686-w64-mingw32.static/include -I/opt/mxe/usr/i686-w64-mingw32.static/include/SDL2 -L/opt/mxe/usr/i686-w64-mingw32.static/lib -lmingw32 -Dmain=SDL_main -lSDL2main -lSDL2 -lSDL2main -Wl,--no-insert-timestamp -luser32 -lgdi32 -lwinmm -limm32 -lole32 -loleaut32 -lshell32 -lversion -o hello && chmod 700 hello && analysePE.py hello   tee /tmp/hello.log-$(date +%s); sleep 1' 'hello'
$ diff -au /tmp/hello.log-1*
--- /tmp/hello.log-1490950327   2017-03-31 10:52:07.788616930 +0200
+++ /tmp/hello.log-1523203509   2017-03-31 10:52:09.064633539 +0200
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@
 found PE header (size: 20)
     machine: i386
     number of sections: 17
-    timedatestamp: -1198218512 (Tue Jan 12 05:31:28 1932)
+    timedatestamp: 632430928 (Tue Jan 16 09:15:28 1990)
     pointer to symbol table: 4593152 (0x461600)
     number of symbols: 11581 (0x2d3d)
     size of optional header: 224
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@
     Win32VersionValue: 0
     size of image (memory): 4640768
     size of headers (offset to first section raw data): 1536
-    checksum (for drivers): 4927867
+    checksum (for drivers): 4922616
     subsystem: 3
         win32 console binary
     DllCharacteristics: 0
Stephen Kitt mentioned 2 simple patches (1 2) fixing uninitialized memory in binutils. These patches fix the variation and were submitted to MXE (pull request).
Next was playing with compiler support for SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH (which e.g. sets __DATE__ macros).
The FreeDink DFArc frontend historically displays a build date in the About box: 
    "Build Date: %s\n", ..., __TDATE__
sadly support is only landing upstream in GCC 7 :/
I had to remove that date.
Now comes the challenging parts. All my tests with reprotest checked. I started writing a reproducible build environment based on Docker (git browse).
At first I could not run reprotest in the container, so I reworked it with SSH support, and reprotest validated determinism.
(I also generate a reproducible .zip archive, more on that later.) So far so good, but were the release identical when running reprotest successively on the different environments?
(reminder: this is a .exe build that is insensitive to varying path, hence consistent in a full reprotest) 
$ sha256sum *.zip
189d0ca5240374896c6ecc6dfcca00905ae60797ab48abce2162fa36568e7cf1  freedink-109.0-bin-buildsh.zip
e182406b4f4d7c3a4d239eee126134ba5c0304bbaa4af3de15fd4f8bda5634a9  freedink-109.0-bin-docker.zip
e182406b4f4d7c3a4d239eee126134ba5c0304bbaa4af3de15fd4f8bda5634a9  freedink-109.0-bin-reprotest-docker.zip
37007f6ee043d9479d8c48ea0a861ae1d79fb234cd05920a25bb3db704828ece  freedink-109.0-bin-reprotest-null.zip
Ouch! Even though both the Docker and my host are running Stretch, there are differences.
For the two host builds (direct and reprotest), there is a subtle but simple difference: HOME.
HOME is invariably non-existant in reprotest, while my normal compilation environment has an existing home (duh!). This caused a subtle bug when cross-compiling with mingw and wine-binfmt: 
  checking whether we are cross compiling... no

  checking whether we are cross compiling... yes
The respective binaries were very different notably due to a different config.h.
This can be fixed by specifying --build in addition to --host when calling ./configure. I suggested reprotest have one of the tests with a valid HOME (#860428).
Now comes the big one, after the fix I still got: 
$ sha256sum *.zip
3545270ef6eaa997640cb62d66dc610a328ce0e7d412f24c8f18fdc7445907fd  freedink-109.0-bin-buildsh.zip
cc50ec1a38598d143650bdff66904438f0f5c1d3e2bea0219b749be2dcd2c3eb  freedink-109.0-bin-docker.zip
3545270ef6eaa997640cb62d66dc610a328ce0e7d412f24c8f18fdc7445907fd  freedink-109.0-bin-reprotest-chroot.zip
cc50ec1a38598d143650bdff66904438f0f5c1d3e2bea0219b749be2dcd2c3eb  freedink-109.0-bin-reprotest-docker.zip
3545270ef6eaa997640cb62d66dc610a328ce0e7d412f24c8f18fdc7445907fd  freedink-109.0-bin-reprotest-null.zip
There is consistency on my host, and consistency within docker, but both are different.
Moreover, all the .o files were identical, so something must have gone wrong when compiling the libs, that is MXE. After many checks it appears that libstdc++.a is different.
Just overwriting it gets me a consistent FreeDink release on all environments.
Still, when rebuilding it (make gcc), libstdc++.a always has the same environment-dependent checksum. 
45f8c5d50a68aa9919ee3602a4e3f5b2bd0333bc8d781d7852b2b6121c8ba27b  /opt/mxe/usr/lib/gcc/i686-w64-mingw32.static/5.4.0/libstdc++.a  # host
6870b84f8e17aec4b5cf23cfe9c2e87e40d9cf59772a92707152361b6ebc1eb4  /opt/mxe/usr/lib/gcc/i686-w64-mingw32.static/5.4.0/libstdc++.a  # docker
The 2 libraries are much different, there's barely any blue in hexcompare. At that time, I realized that the Docker "official" Debian are not really official, as Joey explains.
Could it be that Docker maliciously tampered with the compiler as Ken Thompson warned in 1984?? Well before jumping to conclusion let's mix & match. 
$ sudo env -i /usr/sbin/chroot chroot-docker/
$ exec bash -l
$ cd /opt/mxe
$ touch src/gcc.mk
$ sha256sum /opt/mxe/usr/lib/gcc/i686-w64-mingw32.static/5.4.0/libstdc++.a 
6870b84f8e17aec4b5cf23cfe9c2e87e40d9cf59772a92707152361b6ebc1eb4  /opt/mxe/usr/lib/gcc/i686-w64-mingw32.static/5.4.0/libstdc++.a
$ make gcc
[build]     gcc                    i686-w64-mingw32.static
[done]      gcc                    i686-w64-mingw32.static                                 2709464 KiB    7m2.039s
$ sha256sum /opt/mxe/usr/lib/gcc/i686-w64-mingw32.static/5.4.0/libstdc++.a 
45f8c5d50a68aa9919ee3602a4e3f5b2bd0333bc8d781d7852b2b6121c8ba27b  /opt/mxe/usr/lib/gcc/i686-w64-mingw32.static/5.4.0/libstdc++.a
# consistent with host builds

$ sudo tar -C chroot -c .   docker import - chroot-debootstrap
$ docker run -ti chroot-debootstrap /bin/bash
$ sha256sum /opt/mxe/usr/lib/gcc/i686-w64-mingw32.static/5.4.0/libstdc++.a
45f8c5d50a68aa9919ee3602a4e3f5b2bd0333bc8d781d7852b2b6121c8ba27b  /opt/mxe/usr/lib/gcc/i686-w64-mingw32.static/5.4.0/libstdc++.a
$ touch src/gcc.mk
$ make gcc
[build]     gcc                    i686-w64-mingw32.static
[done]      gcc                    i686-w64-mingw32.static                                 2709412 KiB    7m6.608s
$ sha256sum /opt/mxe/usr/lib/gcc/i686-w64-mingw32.static/5.4.0/libstdc++.a
6870b84f8e17aec4b5cf23cfe9c2e87e40d9cf59772a92707152361b6ebc1eb4  /opt/mxe/usr/lib/gcc/i686-w64-mingw32.static/5.4.0/libstdc++.a
# consistent with docker builds
So, AFAICS when building with: then depending on whether running in a container or not we get a consistent but different libstdc++.a. This kind of issue is not detected with a simple reprotest build, as it only tests variations within a fixed build environment.
This is quite worrisome, I intend to use a container to control my build environment, but I can't guarantee that the container technology will be exactly the same 5 years from now. All my setup is simple and available for inspection at https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/freedink.git/tree/autobuild/freedink-w32-snapshot/. I'd very much welcome enlightenment :)

28 March 2017

Sylvain Beucler: Practical basics of reproducible builds 2

Let's review what we learned so far: We stopped when compiling a PE .exe produced a varying output.
It turns out that PE carries a build date timestamp. The spec says that bound DLLs timestamps are refered to in the "Delay-Load Directory Table". Maybe that's also the date Windows displays when a system-wide DLL is about to be replaced, too.
Build timestamps looks unused in .exe files though. Anyway, Stephen Kitt pointed out (thanks!) that Debian's MinGW linker binutils-mingw-w64 has an upstream-pending patch that sets the timestamp to SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH if set. Alternatively, one can pass -Wl,--no-insert-timestamp to set it to 0 (though see caveats below): 
$ i686-w64-mingw32.static-gcc -Wl,--no-insert-timestamp hello.c -o hello.exe 
$ md5sum hello.exe 
298f98d74e6e913628a8b74514eddcb2  hello.exe
$ /opt/mxe/usr/bin/i686-w64-mingw32.static-gcc -Wl,--no-insert-timestamp hello.c -o hello.exe 
$ md5sum hello.exe 
298f98d74e6e913628a8b74514eddcb2  hello.exe
If we don't care about debug symbols, unlike with ELF, stripped PE binaries look stable too! 
$ cd repro/
$ i686-w64-mingw32.static-gcc hello.c -o hello.exe && i686-w64-mingw32.static-strip hello.exe
$ md5sum hello.exe 
6e07736bf8a59e5397c16e799699168d  hello.exe
$ i686-w64-mingw32.static-gcc hello.c -o hello.exe && i686-w64-mingw32.static-strip hello.exe
$ md5sum hello.exe 
6e07736bf8a59e5397c16e799699168d  hello.exe
$ cd ..
$ cp -a repro repro2/
$ cd repro2/
$ i686-w64-mingw32.static-gcc hello.c -o hello.exe && i686-w64-mingw32.static-strip hello.exe
$ md5sum hello.exe 
6e07736bf8a59e5397c16e799699168d  hello.exe
Now that we have the main executable covered, what about the dependencies?
Let's see how well MXE compiles SDL2: 
$ cd /opt/mxe/
$ cp -a ./usr/i686-w64-mingw32.static/lib/libSDL2.a /tmp
$ rm -rf * && git checkout .
$ make sdl2
$ md5sum ./usr/i686-w64-mingw32.static/lib/libSDL2.a /tmp/libSDL2.a 
68909ab13181b1283bd1970a56d41482  ./usr/i686-w64-mingw32.static/lib/libSDL2.a
68909ab13181b1283bd1970a56d41482  /tmp/libSDL2.a
Neat - what about another build directory? 
$ cd /usr/srx/mxe
$ make sdl2
$ md5sum usr/i686-w64-mingw32.static/lib/libSDL2.a /tmp/libSDL2.a 
c6c368323927e2ae7adab7ee2a7223e9  usr/i686-w64-mingw32.static/lib/libSDL2.a
68909ab13181b1283bd1970a56d41482  /tmp/libSDL2.a
$ ls -l ./usr/i686-w64-mingw32.static/lib/libSDL2.a /tmp/libSDL2.a 
-rw-r--r-- 1 me me 5861536 mars  23 21:04 /tmp/libSDL2.a
-rw-r--r-- 1 me me 5862488 mars  25 19:46 ./usr/i686-w64-mingw32.static/lib/libSDL2.a
Well that was expected.
But what about the filesystem order?
With such an automated build, could potential variations in the order of files go undetected?
Would the output be different on another filesystem format (ext4 vs. btrfs...)? It was a good opportunity to test the disorderfs fuse-based tool.
And while I'm at it, check if reprotest is easy enough to use (the manpage is scary).
Let's redo our basic tests with it - basic usage is actually very simple: 
$ apt-get install reprotest disorderfs faketime
$ reprotest 'make hello' 'hello'
...
will vary: environment
will vary: fileordering
will vary: home
will vary: kernel
will vary: locales
will vary: exec_path
will vary: time
will vary: timezone
will vary: umask
...
--- /tmp/tmpk5uipdle/control_artifact/
+++ /tmp/tmpk5uipdle/experiment_artifact/
    --- /tmp/tmpk5uipdle/control_artifact/hello
  +++ /tmp/tmpk5uipdle/experiment_artifact/hello
  stat  
    @@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
     
       Size: 8632       Blocks: 24         IO Block: 4096   regular file
     Links: 1
    -Access: (0755/-rwxr-xr-x)  Uid: ( 1000/      me)   Gid: ( 1000/      me)
    +Access: (0775/-rwxrwxr-x)  Uid: ( 1000/      me)   Gid: ( 1000/      me)
     
     Modify: 1970-01-01 00:00:00.000000000 +0000
     
      Birth: -
# => OK except for permissions
$ reprotest 'make hello && chmod 755 hello' 'hello'
=======================
Reproduction successful
=======================
No differences in hello
c8f63b73265e69ab3b9d44dcee0ef1d2815cdf71df3c59635a2770e21cf462ec  hello
$ reprotest 'make hello CFLAGS="-g -O2"' 'hello'
# => lots of differences, as expected
Now let's apply to the MXE build.
We keep the same build path, and also avoid using linux32 (because MXE would then recompile all the host compiler tools for 32-bit): 
$ reprotest --dont-vary build_path,kernel 'touch src/sdl2.mk && make sdl2 && cp -a usr/i686-w64-mingw32.static/lib/libSDL2.a .' 'libSDL2.a'
=======================
Reproduction successful
=======================
No differences in libSDL2.a
d9a39785fbeee5a3ac278be489ac7bf3b99b5f1f7f3e27ebf3f8c60fe25086b5  libSDL2.a
That checks!
What about a full MXE environment? 
$ reprotest --dont-vary build_path,kernel 'make clean && make sdl2 sdl2_gfx sdl2_image sdl2_mixer sdl2_ttf libzip gettext nsis' 'usr'
# => changes in installation dates
# => timestamps in .exe files (dbus, ...)
# => libicu doesn't look reproducible (derb.exe, genbrk.exe, genccode.exe...)
# => apparently ar timestamp variations in libaclui
Most libraries look reproducible enough.
ar differences may go away at FreeDink link time since I'm aiming at a static build. Let's try! First let's see how FreeDink behaves with stable dependencies.
We can compile with -Wl,--no-insert-timestamp and strip the binaries in a first step.
There are various issues (timestamps, permissions) but first let's check the executables themselves: 
$ cd freedink/
$ reprotest --dont-vary build_path 'mkdir cross-woe-32/ && cd cross-woe-32/ && export PATH=/opt/mxe/usr/bin:$PATH && LDFLAGS='-Wl,--no-insert-timestamp' ../configure --host=i686-w64-mingw32.static --enable-static && make -j$(nproc) && make install-strip DESTDIR=$(pwd)/destdir' 'cross-woe-32/destdir/usr/local/bin'
# => executables are identical!
# Same again, just to make sure
$ reprotest --dont-vary build_path 'mkdir cross-woe-32/ && cd cross-woe-32/ && export PATH=/opt/mxe/usr/bin:$PATH && LDFLAGS='-Wl,--no-insert-timestamp' ../configure --host=i686-w64-mingw32.static --enable-static && make -j$(nproc) && make install-strip DESTDIR=$(pwd)/destdir' 'cross-woe-32/destdir/usr/local/bin'
    --- /tmp/tmp2yw0sn4_/control_artifact/bin/freedink.exe
  +++ /tmp/tmp2yw0sn4_/experiment_artifact/bin/freedink.exe
    @@ -2,20 +2,20 @@
     00000010: b800 0000 0000 0000 4000 0000 0000 0000  ........@.......
     00000020: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000  ................
     00000030: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 8000 0000  ................
     00000040: 0e1f ba0e 00b4 09cd 21b8 014c cd21 5468  ........!..L.!Th
     00000050: 6973 2070 726f 6772 616d 2063 616e 6e6f  is program canno
     00000060: 7420 6265 2072 756e 2069 6e20 444f 5320  t be run in DOS 
     00000070: 6d6f 6465 2e0d 0d0a 2400 0000 0000 0000  mode....$.......
    -00000080: 5045 0000 4c01 0a00 e534 0735 0000 0000  PE..L....4.5....
    +00000080: 5045 0000 4c01 0a00 0000 0000 0000 0000  PE..L...........
     00000090: 0000 0000 e000 0e03 0b01 0219 00f2 3400  ..............4.
     000000a0: 0022 4e00 0050 3b00 c014 0000 0010 0000  ."N..P;.........
     000000b0: 0010 3500 0000 4000 0010 0000 0002 0000  ..5...@.........
     000000c0: 0400 0000 0100 0000 0400 0000 0000 0000  ................
    -000000d0: 00e0 8900 0004 0000 7662 4e00 0200 0000  ........vbN.....
    +000000d0: 00e0 8900 0004 0000 89f8 4e00 0200 0000  ..........N.....
     000000e0: 0000 2000 0010 0000 0000 1000 0010 0000  .. .............
     000000f0: 0000 0000 1000 0000 00a0 8700 b552 0000  .............R..
     00000100: 0000 8800 d02d 0000 0050 8800 5006 0000  .....-...P..P...
     00000110: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000  ................
     00000120: 0060 8800 4477 0100 0000 0000 0000 0000  . ..Dw..........
     00000130: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000  ................
     00000140: 0440 8800 1800 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000  .@..............
  stat  
      @@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
       
         Size: 5121536       Blocks: 10008      IO Block: 4096   regular file
       Links: 1
       Access: (0755/-rwxr-xr-x)  Uid: ( 1000/      me)   Gid: ( 1000/      me)
       
      -Modify: 2017-03-26 01:26:35.233841833 +0000
      +Modify: 2017-03-26 01:27:01.829592505 +0000
       
        Birth: -
Gah...
AFAIU there is something random in the linking phase, and sometimes the timestamp is removed, sometimes it's not.
Not very easy to track but I believe I reproduced it with the "hello" example: 
# With MXE:
$ reprotest 'i686-w64-mingw32.static-gcc hello.c -I /opt/mxe/usr/i686-w64-mingw32.static/include -I/opt/mxe/usr/i686-w64-mingw32.static/include/SDL2 -L/opt/mxe/usr/i686-w64-mingw32.static/lib -lmingw32 -Dmain=SDL_main -lSDL2main -lSDL2 -lSDL2main -Wl,--no-insert-timestamp -luser32 -lgdi32 -lwinmm -limm32 -lole32 -loleaut32 -lshell32 -lversion -o hello && chmod 700 hello' 'hello'
# => different
# => maybe because it imports the build timestamp from -lSDL2main
# With Debian's MinGW (but without SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH):
$ reprotest 'i686-w64-mingw32-gcc hello.c -I /opt/mxe/usr/i686-w64-mingw32.static/include -I/opt/mxe/usr/i686-w64-mingw32.static/include/SDL2 -L/opt/mxe/usr/i686-w64-mingw32.static/lib -lmingw32 -Dmain=SDL_main -lSDL2main -lSDL2 -lSDL2main -Wl,--no-insert-timestamp -luser32 -lgdi32 -lwinmm -limm32 -lole32 -loleaut32 -lshell32 -lversion -o hello && chmod 700 hello' 'hello'
=======================
Reproduction successful
=======================
No differences in hello
0b2d99dc51e2ad68ad040d90405ed953a006c6e58599beb304f0c2164c7b83a2  hello
# Let's remove -Dmain=SDL_main and let our main() have precedence over the one in -lSDL2main:
$ reprotest 'i686-w64-mingw32.static-gcc hello.c -I /opt/mxe/usr/i686-w64-mingw32.static/include -I/opt/mxe/usr/i686-w64-mingw32.static/include/SDL2 -L/opt/mxe/usr/i686-w64-mingw32.static/lib -lmingw32 -lSDL2main -lSDL2 -lSDL2main -Wl,--no-insert-timestamp -luser32 -lgdi32 -lwinmm -limm32 -lole32 -loleaut32 -lshell32 -lversion -o hello && chmod 700 hello' 'hello'
=======================
Reproduction successful
=======================
No differences in hello
6c05f75eec1904d58be222cc83055d078b4c3be8b7f185c7d3a08b9a83a2ef8d  hello
$ LANG=C i686-w64-mingw32.static-ld --version  # MXE
GNU ld (GNU Binutils) 2.25.1
Copyright (C) 2014 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
$ LANG=C i686-w64-mingw32-ld --version  # Debian
GNU ld (GNU Binutils) 2.27.90.20161231
Copyright (C) 2016 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
It looks like there is a random behavior in binutils 2.25, coupled with SDL2's wrapping of my main(). So FreeDink is nearly reproducible, except for this build timestamp issue that pops up in all kind of situations. In the worse case I can zero it out, or patch MXE's binutils until they upgrade. More importantly, what if I recompile FreeDink and the dependencies twice? 
$ (cd /opt/mxe/ && make clean && make sdl2 sdl2_gfx sdl2_image sdl2_mixer sdl2_ttf glm libzip gettext nsis)
$ (mkdir cross-woe-32/ && cd cross-woe-32/ \
  && export PATH=/opt/mxe/usr/bin:$PATH \
  && LDFLAGS="-Wl,--no-insert-timestamp" ../configure --host=i686-w64-mingw32.static --enable-static \
  && make V=1 -j$(nproc) \
  && make install-strip DESTDIR=$(pwd)/destdir)
$ mv cross-woe-32/ cross-woe-32-1/
# Same again...
$ mv cross-woe-32/ cross-woe-32-2/
$ diff -ru cross-woe-32-1/destdir/ cross-woe-32-2/destdir/
[nothing]
Yay!
I could not reproduce the build timestamp issue in the stripped binaries, though it was still varying in the unstripped src/freedinkedit.exe.
I mentioned there was other changes noticed by diffoscope. That one is interesting.
Could be ignored, but we want to generate an identical binary package/archive too, right?
That's where archive meta-data matters.
make INSTALL="$(which install) install -p" could help for static files, but not generated ones.
The doc suggests clamping all files to SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH - i.e. all generated files will have their date set at that timestamp: 
$ export SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH=$(date +%s) \
  && reprotest --dont-vary build_path \
  'make ... && find destdir/ -newermt "@$ SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH " -print0   xargs -0r touch --no-dereference --date="@$ SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH "' 'cross-woe-32/destdir/'
Caused by varying umask.
I attempted to mitigate the issue by playing with make install MKDIR_P="mkdir -p -m 755" (1).
However even mkdir -p -m ... does not set permissions for intermediate directories.
Maybe it's better to set and record the umask...
So, aside from minor issues such as BuildIDs and build timestamps, the toolchain is pretty stable as of now.
The issue is more about fixing and recording the build environment.
Which is probably the next challenge :)

21 June 2016

Reproducible builds folks: Reproducible builds: week 60 in Stretch cycle

What happened in the Reproducible Builds effort between June 12th and June 18th 2016: Media coverage GSoC and Outreachy updates Weekly reports by our participants: Toolchain fixes With this upload of texlive-bin we decided to stop keeping our patched fork of as most of the patches for SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH support had been integrated upstream already, and the last one (making FORCE_SOURCE_DATE default to 1) had been refused. So, we are now going to let the archive be rebuilt against unstable's texlive-bin and see how many packages will become unreproducible with this change; once enough data will be collected we will ponder whether FORCE_SOURCE_DATE should be exported by helper tools (such as debhelper) or manually exported by every package that needs it. (For those wondering: we still recommend to follow SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH always and don't recommend other projects to implement FORCE_SOURCE_DATE ) With the drop of texlive-bin we now have only three modified packages in our experimental repository. Reproducible work in other projects Packages fixed The following 12 packages have become reproducible due to changes in their build dependencies: django-floppyforms flask-restful hy jets3t kombu llvm-toolchain-3.8 moap python-bottle python-debtcollector python-django-debug-toolbar python-osprofiler stevedore The following packages have become reproducible after being fixed: Some uploads have fixed some reproducibility issues, but not all of them: Uploads with reproducibility fixes that currently fail to build: Patches submitted that have not made their way to the archive yet: Package reviews 36 reviews have been added, 12 have been updated and 31 have been removed in this week. 17 FTBFS bugs have been reported by Chris Lamb, Santiago Vila and Dominic Hargreaves. diffoscope development Satyam worked on argument completion (#826711) for diffoscope. strip-nondeterminism development Mattia Rizzolo uploaded strip-nondeterminism 0.019-1~bpo8+1 to jessie-backports. reprotest development Ceridwen filed an Intent To Package (ITP) bug for reprotest as #827293. tests.reproducible-builds.org Misc. This week's edition was written by Mattia Rizzolo, Reiner Herrmann, Ed Maste and Holger Levsen and reviewed by a bunch of Reproducible builds folks on IRC.

15 June 2016

Reproducible builds folks: Reproducible builds: week 59 in Stretch cycle

What happened in the Reproducible Builds effort between June 5th and June 11th 2016: Media coverage Ed Maste gave a talk at BSDCan 2016 on reproducible builds (slides, video). GSoC and Outreachy updates Weekly reports by our participants: Documentation update - Ximin Luo proposed a modification to our SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH spec explaining FORCE_SOURCE_DATE. Some upstream build tools (e.g. TeX, see below) have expressed a desire to control which cases of embedded timestamps should obey SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH. They were not convinced by our arguments on why this is a bad idea, so we agreed on an environment variable FORCE_SOURCE_DATE for them to implement their desired behaviour - named generically, so that at least we can set it centrally. For more details, see the text just linked. However, we strongly urge most build tools not to use this, and instead obey SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH unconditionally in all cases. Toolchain fixes Packages fixed The following 16 packages have become reproducible due to changes in their build-dependencies: apertium-dan-nor apertium-swe-nor asterisk-prompt-fr-armelle blktrace canl-c code-saturne coinor-symphony dsc-statistics frobby libphp-jpgraph paje.app proxycheck pybit spip tircd xbs The following 5 packages are new in Debian and appear to be reproducible so far: golang-github-bowery-prompt golang-github-pkg-errors golang-gopkg-dancannon-gorethink.v2 libtask-kensho-perl sspace The following packages had older versions which were reproducible, and their latest versions are now reproducible again after being fixed: The following packages have become reproducible after being fixed: Some uploads have fixed some reproducibility issues, but not all of them: Patches submitted that have not made their way to the archive yet: Package reviews 68 reviews have been added, 19 have been updated and 28 have been removed in this week. New and updated issues: 26 FTBFS bugs have been reported by Chris Lamb, 1 by Santiago Vila and 1 by Sascha Steinbiss. diffoscope development strip-nondeterminism development disorderfs development tests.reproducible-builds.org Misc. Steven Chamberlain submitted a patch to FreeBSD's makefs to allow reproducible builds of the kfreebsd installer. Ed Maste committed a patch to FreeBSD's binutils to enable determinstic archives by default in GNU ar. Helmut Grohne experimented with cross+native reproductions of dash with some success, using rebootstrap. This week's edition was written by Ximin Luo, Chris Lamb, Holger Levsen, Mattia Rizzolo and reviewed by a bunch of Reproducible builds folks on IRC.

14 March 2016

Lunar: Reproducible builds: week 46 in Stretch cycle

What happened in the reproducible builds effort between March 6th and March 12th:

Packages fixed The following packages have become reproducible due to changes in their build dependencies: dfc, gap-openmath, gnubik, gplanarity, iirish, iitalian, monajat, openimageio, plexus-digest, ruby-fssm, vdr-plugin-dvd, vdr-plugin-spider. The following packages became reproducible after getting fixed:
  • adduser/3.114 by Niels Thykier.
  • bsdmainutils/9.0.7 by Michael Meskes.
  • criu/2.0-1 by Salvatore Bonaccorso.
  • genometools/1.5.8+ds-2 by Sascha Steinbiss.
  • gfs2-utils/3.1.8-1 uploaded by Bastian Blank, fix by Christoph Berg.
  • gmerlin/1.2.0~dfsg+1-5 by IOhannes m zm lnig.
  • heroes/0.21-14 by Stephen Kitt.
  • kmc/2.3+dfsg-3 by Sascha Steinbiss.
  • polyml/5.6-3 by James Clarke.
  • sed/4.2.2-7.1 by Niels Thykier.
  • snpomatic/1.0-3 by Sascha Steinbiss.
  • tantan/13-4 by Sascha Steinbiss.
Some uploads fixed some reproducibility issues, but not all of them: Patches submitted which have not made their way to the archive yet:
  • #817979 on modernizr by Sascha Steinbiss: sort list of files included in feature-detects.js.
  • #818027 on snapper by Sascha Steinbiss: always use /bin/sh as shell.

tests.reproducible-builds.org Always use all cores on armhf builders. (h01ger) Improve the look of Debian dashboard. (h01ger)

Package reviews 118 reviews have been removed, 114 added and 15 updated in the previous week. 15 FTBFS have been filled by Chris Lamb. New issues: xmlto_txt_output_locale_specific.

Misc. Lunar seeks new maintainers for diffoscope, several mailing lists, and these very weekly reports.

18 October 2015

Lunar: Reproducible builds: week 25 in Stretch cycle

What happened in the reproducible builds effort this week: Toolchain fixes Niko Tyni wrote a new patch adding support for SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH in Pod::Man. This would complement or replace the previously implemented POD_MAN_DATE environment variable in a more generic way. Niko Tyni proposed a fix to prevent mtime variation in directories due to debhelper usage of cp --parents -p. Packages fixed The following 119 packages became reproducible due to changes in their build dependencies: aac-tactics, aafigure, apgdiff, bin-prot, boxbackup, calendar, camlmix, cconv, cdist, cl-asdf, cli-common, cluster-glue, cppo, cvs, esdl, ess, faucc, fauhdlc, fbcat, flex-old, freetennis, ftgl, gap, ghc, git-cola, globus-authz-callout-error, globus-authz, globus-callout, globus-common, globus-ftp-client, globus-ftp-control, globus-gass-cache, globus-gass-copy, globus-gass-transfer, globus-gram-client, globus-gram-job-manager-callout-error, globus-gram-protocol, globus-gridmap-callout-error, globus-gsi-callback, globus-gsi-cert-utils, globus-gsi-credential, globus-gsi-openssl-error, globus-gsi-proxy-core, globus-gsi-proxy-ssl, globus-gsi-sysconfig, globus-gss-assist, globus-gssapi-error, globus-gssapi-gsi, globus-net-manager, globus-openssl-module, globus-rsl, globus-scheduler-event-generator, globus-xio-gridftp-driver, globus-xio-gsi-driver, globus-xio, gnome-control-center, grml2usb, grub, guilt, hgview, htmlcxx, hwloc, imms, kde-l10n, keystone, kimwitu++, kimwitu-doc, kmod, krb5, laby, ledger, libcrypto++, libopendbx, libsyncml, libwps, lprng-doc, madwimax, maria, mediawiki-math, menhir, misery, monotone-viz, morse, mpfr4, obus, ocaml-csv, ocaml-reins, ocamldsort, ocp-indent, openscenegraph, opensp, optcomp, opus, otags, pa-bench, pa-ounit, pa-test, parmap, pcaputils, perl-cross-debian, prooftree, pyfits, pywavelets, pywbem, rpy, signify, siscone, swtchart, tipa, typerep, tyxml, unison2.32.52, unison2.40.102, unison, uuidm, variantslib, zipios++, zlibc, zope-maildrophost. The following packages became reproducible after getting fixed: Packages which could not be tested: Some uploads fixed some reproducibility issues but not all of them: Patches submitted which have not made their way to the archive yet: Lunar reported that test strings depend on default character encoding of the build system in ongl. reproducible.debian.net The 189 packages composing the Arch Linux core repository are now being tested. No packages are currently reproducible, but most of the time the difference is limited to metadata. This has already gained some interest in the Arch Linux community. An explicit log message is now visible when a build has been killed due to the 12 hours timeout. (h01ger) Remote build setup has been made more robust and self maintenance has been further improved. (h01ger) The minimum age for rescheduling of already tested amd64 packages has been lowered from 14 to 7 days, thanks to the increase of hardware resources sponsored by ProfitBricks last week. (h01ger) diffoscope development diffoscope version 37 has been released on October 15th. It adds support for two new file formats (CBFS images and Debian .dsc files). After proposing the required changes to TLSH, fuzzy hashes are now computed incrementally. This will avoid reading entire files in memory which caused problems for large packages. New tests have been added for the command-line interface. More character encoding issues have been fixed. Malformed md5sums will now be compared as binary files instead of making diffoscope crash amongst several other minor fixes. Version 38 was released two days later to fix the versioned dependency on python3-tlsh. strip-nondeterminism development strip-nondeterminism version 0.013-1 has been uploaded to the archive. It fixes an issue with nonconformant PNG files with trailing garbage reported by Roland Rosenfeld. disorderfs development disorderfs version 0.4.1-1 is a stop-gap release that will disable lock propagation, unless --share-locks=yes is specified, as it still is affected by unidentified issues. Documentation update Lunar has been busy creating a proper website for reproducible-builds.org that would be a common location for news, documentation, and tools for all free software projects working on reproducible builds. It's not yet ready to be published, but it's surely getting there. Homepage of the future reproducible-builds.org website Who's involved? page of the future reproducible-builds.org website Package reviews 103 reviews have been removed, 394 added and 29 updated this week. 72 FTBFS issues were reported by Chris West and Niko Tyni. New issues: random_order_in_static_libraries, random_order_in_md5sums.

14 October 2015

Lunar: Reproducible builds: week 24 in Stretch cycle

What happened in the reproducible builds effort this week: Toolchain fixes Scott Kitterman fixed an issue with non-deterministic Depends generated by dh-python identified by Santiago Vila and Chris Lamb. Lunar updated the patch against dpkg which makes the order of files in control.tar.gz deterministic using the new --sort=name option available in GNU Tar 1.28. josch released sbuild version 0.66.0-1 with several fixes and improvements. The most notable one for reproducible builds is the new --build-path option and $build_path configuration variable added by akira which allows to explicitly chose a given build path. Reiner Herrmann wrote a new patch for dh-systemd to sort the list of unit files in the generated maintainer scripts. Packages fixed The following packages became reproducible due to changes in their build dependencies: aoeui, apron, camlmix, cudf, findlib, glpk-java, hawtjni, haxe, java-atk-wrapper, llvm-py, misery, mtasc, ocamldsort, optcomp, spamoracle. The following packages became reproducible after getting fixed: Some uploads fixed some reproducibility issues but not all of them: Untested Patches submitted which have not made their way to the archive yet: reproducible.debian.net ProfitBricks once again increased their support for reproducible builds in Debian and in other free software projects by adding 58 new cores and 138 GiB of RAM to the already existing setup. Two new amd64 build nodes and 16 new amd64 build jobs have been added which doubles the build capacity per day and allows us to spot many kind of problems earlier. The size of the tmpfs where builds are performed has also been increased from 70 to 200 GiB on all amd64 build nodes. Huge thanks! When examining a package, a link now points to a table listing all previous recorded tests for the same package. (Mattia) The menu on the package pages has also been improved. (h01ger) Packages in the depwait state are now rescheduled automatically after five days. (h01ger) Links to documentation and other projects being tested have been made more visible on the landing page. (h01ger) To reduce noise on the team IRC channel five different types of notifications have been turned into mail notifications. The remaining ones have been shortened and the status changes have been limited to unstable and experimental. (h01ger) Maintainer notifications about status changes in a package will only be sent out once per day, and not on each status change. (h01ger) diffoscope development Some more experiments of concurrent processing have been made. None were good and reliable enough to be shared, though. Package reviews 48 reviews have been removed, 189 added and 23 updated this week. 9 FTBFS bugs were reported by Chris Lamb. Misc. h01ger met with Levente Polyak to discuss testing Arch Linux on Debian continuous test system with an easily extensible framework. The idea is to also allow testing of other distributions, and provide a nice package based view like the one for Debian.

6 September 2015

Lunar: Reproducible builds: week 19 in Stretch cycle

What happened in the reproducible builds effort this week: Toolchain fixes Dmitry Shachnev uploaded sphinx/1.3.1-6 with improved patches from Val Lorentz. Chris Lamb submitted a patch for ibus-table which makes the output of ibus-table-createdb deterministic. Niko Tyni wrote a patch to make libmodule-build-perl linking order deterministic. Santiago Vila has been leading discussions on the best way to fix timestamps coming from Gettext POT files. Packages fixed The following 35 packages became reproducible due to changes in their build dependencies: apache-log4j2, dctrl-tools, dms, gitit, gnubik, isrcsubmit, mailutils, normaliz, oaklisp, octave-fpl, octave-specfun, octave-vrml, opencolorio, openvdb, pescetti, php-guzzlehttp, proofgeneral, pyblosxom, pyopencl, pyqi, python-expyriment, python-flask-httpauth, python-mzml, python-simpy, python-tidylib, reactive-streams, scmxx, shared-mime-info, sikuli, siproxd, srtp, tachyon, tcltk-defaults, urjtag, velvet. The following packages became reproducible after getting fixed: The package is not in yet in unstable, but linux/4.2-1~exp1 is now reproducible! Kudos to Ben Hutchings, and most fixes are already merged upstream. Some uploads fixed some reproducibility issues but not all of them: Patches submitted which have not made their way to the archive yet: reproducible.debian.net Some bugs that prevented packages to build successfully in the remote builders have been fixed. (h01ger) Two more amd64 build jobs have been removed from the Jenkins host in favor of six more on the new remote nodes. (h01ger) The munin graphs currently looks fine, so more amd64 jobs will probably be added in the next week. diffoscope development Version 32 of diffoscope has been released on September 3rd with the following new features: It also fixes many bugs. Head over to the changelog for the full list. Version 33 was released the day after to fix a bug introduced in the packaging. Documentation update Chris Lamb blessed the SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH specification with the version number 1.0 . Lunar documented how the .file assembler directive can help with random filenames in debug symbols. Package reviews 235 reviews have been removed, 84 added and 277 updated this week. 29 new FTBFS bugs were filled by Chris Lamb, Chris West (Faux), Daniel Stender, and Niko Tyni. New issues identified this week: random_order_in_ibus_table_createdb_output, random_order_in_antlr_output, nondetermistic_link_order_in_module_build, and timestamps_in_tex_documents. Misc. Thanks to Dhole and Thomas Vincent, the talk held at DebConf15 now has subtitles! Void Linux started to merge changes to make packages produced by xbps reproducible.

1 September 2015

Lunar: Reproducible builds: week 18 in Stretch cycle

What happened in the reproducible builds effort this week: Toolchain fixes Aur lien Jarno uploaded glibc/2.21-0experimental1 which will fix the issue were locales-all did not behave exactly like locales despite having it in the Provides field. Lunar rebased the pu/reproducible_builds branch for dpkg on top of the released 1.18.2. This made visible an issue with udebs and automatically generated debug packages. The summary from the meeting at DebConf15 between ftpmasters, dpkg mainatainers and reproducible builds folks has been posted to the revelant mailing lists. Packages fixed The following 70 packages became reproducible due to changes in their build dependencies: activemq-activeio, async-http-client, classworlds, clirr, compress-lzf, dbus-c++, felix-bundlerepository, felix-framework, felix-gogo-command, felix-gogo-runtime, felix-gogo-shell, felix-main, felix-shell-tui, felix-shell, findbugs-bcel, gco, gdebi, gecode, geronimo-ejb-3.2-spec, git-repair, gmetric4j, gs-collections, hawtbuf, hawtdispatch, jack-tools, jackson-dataformat-cbor, jackson-dataformat-yaml, jackson-module-jaxb-annotations, jmxetric, json-simple, kryo-serializers, lhapdf, libccrtp, libclaw, libcommoncpp2, libftdi1, libjboss-marshalling-java, libmimic, libphysfs, libxstream-java, limereg, maven-debian-helper, maven-filtering, maven-invoker, mochiweb, mongo-java-driver, mqtt-client, netty-3.9, openhft-chronicle-queue, openhft-compiler, openhft-lang, pavucontrol, plexus-ant-factory, plexus-archiver, plexus-bsh-factory, plexus-cdc, plexus-classworlds2, plexus-component-metadata, plexus-container-default, plexus-io, pytone, scolasync, sisu-ioc, snappy-java, spatial4j-0.4, tika, treeline, wss4j, xtalk, zshdb. The following packages became reproducible after getting fixed: Some uploads fixed some reproducibility issues but not all of them: Patches submitted which have not made their way to the archive yet: Chris Lamb also noticed that binaries shipped with libsilo-bin did not work. Documentation update Chris Lamb and Ximin Luo assembled a proper specification for SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH in the hope to convince more upstreams to adopt it. Thanks to Holger it is published under a non-Debian domain name. Lunar documented easiest way to solve issues with file ordering and timestamps in tarballs that came with tar/1.28-1. Some examples on how to use SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH have been improved to support systems without GNU date. reproducible.debian.net armhf is finally being tested, which also means the remote building of Debian packages finally works! This paves the way to perform the tests on even more architectures and doing variations on CPU and date. Some packages even produce the same binary Arch:all packages on different architectures (1, 2). (h01ger) Tests for FreeBSD are finally running. (h01ger) As it seems the gcc5 transition has cooled off, we schedule sid more often than testing again on amd64. (h01ger) disorderfs has been built and installed on all build nodes (amd64 and armhf). One issue related to permissions for root and unpriviliged users needs to be solved before disorderfs can be used on reproducible.debian.net. (h01ger) strip-nondeterminism Version 0.011-1 has been released on August 29th. The new version updates dh_strip_nondeterminism to match recent changes in debhelper. (Andrew Ayer) disorderfs disorderfs, the new FUSE filesystem to ease testing of filesystem-related variations, is now almost ready to be used. Version 0.2.0 adds support for extended attributes. Since then Andrew Ayer also added support to reverse directory entries instead of shuffling them, and arbitrary padding to the number of blocks used by files. Package reviews 142 reviews have been removed, 48 added and 259 updated this week. Santiago Vila renamed the not_using_dh_builddeb issue into varying_mtimes_in_data_tar_gz_or_control_tar_gz to align better with other tag names. New issue identified this week: random_order_in_python_doit_completion. 37 FTBFS issues have been reported by Chris West (Faux) and Chris Lamb. Misc. h01ger gave a talk at FrOSCon on August 23rd. Recordings are already online. These reports are being reviewed and enhanced every week by many people hanging out on #debian-reproducible. Huge thanks!

22 June 2015

Lunar: Reproducible builds: week 8 in Stretch cycle

What happened about the reproducible builds effort this week: Toolchain fixes Andreas Henriksson has improved Johannes Schauer initial patch for pbuilder adding support for build profiles. Packages fixed The following 12 packages became reproducible due to changes in their build dependencies: collabtive, eric, file-rc, form-history-control, freehep-chartableconverter-plugin , jenkins-winstone, junit, librelaxng-datatype-java, libwildmagic, lightbeam, puppet-lint, tabble. The following packages became reproducible after getting fixed: Some uploads fixed some reproducibility issues but not all of them: Patches submitted which have not made their way to the archive yet: reproducible.debian.net Bugs with the ftbfs usertag are now visible on the bug graphs. This explain the recent spike. (h01ger) Andreas Beckmann suggested a way to test building packages using the funny paths that one can get when they contain the full Debian package version string. debbindiff development Lunar started an important refactoring introducing abstactions for containers and files in order to make file type identification more flexible, enabling fuzzy matching, and allowing parallel processing. Documentation update Ximin Luo detailed the proposal to standardize environment variables to pass a reference source date to tools that needs one (e.g. documentation generator). Package reviews 41 obsolete reviews have been removed, 168 added and 36 updated this week. Some more issues affecting packages failing to build from source have been identified. Meetings Minutes have been posted for Tuesday June 16th meeting. The next meeting is scheduled Tuesday June 23rd at 17:00 UTC. Presentations Lunar presented the project in French during Pas Sage en Seine in Paris. Video and slides are available.

20 June 2015

Lunar: Reproducible builds: week 5 in Stretch cycle

What happened about the reproducible builds effort for this week: Toolchain fixes Uploads that should help other packages: Patch submitted for toolchain issues: Some discussions have been started in Debian and with upstream: Packages fixed The following 8 packages became reproducible due to changes in their build dependencies: access-modifier-checker, apache-log4j2, jenkins-xstream, libsdl-perl, maven-shared-incremental, ruby-pygments.rb, ruby-wikicloth, uimaj. The following packages became reproducible after getting fixed: Some uploads fixed some reproducibility issues but not all of them: Patches submitted which did not make their way to the archive yet: Discussions that have been started: reproducible.debian.net Holger Levsen added two new package sets: pkg-javascript-devel and pkg-php-pear. The list of packages with and without notes are now sorted by age of the latest build. Mattia Rizzolo added support for email notifications so that maintainers can be warned when a package becomes unreproducible. Please ask Mattia or Holger or in the #debian-reproducible IRC channel if you want to be notified for your packages! strip-nondeterminism development Andrew Ayer fixed the gzip handler so that it skip adding a predetermined timestamp when there was none. Documentation update Lunar added documentation about mtimes of file extracted using unzip being timezone dependent. He also wrote a short example on how to test reproducibility. Stephen Kitt updated the documentation about timestamps in PE binaries. Documentation and scripts to perform weekly reports were published by Lunar. Package reviews 50 obsolete reviews have been removed, 51 added and 29 updated this week. Thanks Chris West and Mathieu Bridon amongst others. New identified issues: Misc. Lunar will be talking (in French) about reproducible builds at Pas Sage en Seine on June 19th, at 15:00 in Paris. Meeting will happen this Wednesday, 19:00 UTC.

15 June 2015

Lunar: Reproducible builds: week 7 in Stretch cycle

What happened about the reproducible builds effort for this week: Presentations On June 7th, Reiner Herrmann presented the project at the Gulaschprogrammiernacht 15 in Karlsruhe, Germany. Video and audio recordings in German are available, and so are the slides in English. Toolchain fixes Daniel Kahn Gillmor's report on help2man started a discussion with Brendan O'Dea and Ximin Luo about standardizing a common environment variable that would provide a replacement for an embedded build date. After various proposals and research by Ximin about date handling in several programming languages, the best solution seems to define SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH with a value suitable for gmtime(3).
  1. Martin Borgert wondered if Sphinx could be changed in a way that would avoid having to tweak debian/rules in packages using it to produce HTML documentation.
Daniel Kahn Gillmor opened a new report about icont producing unreproducible binaries. Packages fixed The following 32 packages became reproducible due to changes in their build dependencies: agda, alex, c2hs, clutter-1.0, colorediffs-extension, cpphs, darcs-monitor, dispmua, haskell-curl, haskell-glfw, haskell-glib, haskell-gluraw, haskell-glut, haskell-gnutls, haskell-gsasl, haskell-hfuse, haskell-hledger-interest, haskell-hslua, haskell-hsqml, haskell-hssyck, haskell-libxml-sax, haskell-openglraw, haskell-readline, haskell-terminfo, haskell-x11, jarjar-maven-plugin, kxml2, libcgi-struct-xs-perl, libobject-id-perl, maven-docck-plugin, parboiled, pegdown. The following packages became reproducible after getting fixed: Some uploads fixed some reproducibility issues but not all of them: Patches submitted which did not make their way to the archive yet: reproducible.debian.net A new variation to better notice when a package captures the environment has been introduced. (h01ger) The test on Debian packages works by building the package twice in a short time frame. But sometimes, a mirror push can happen between the first and the second build, resulting in a package built in a different build environment. This situation is now properly detected and will run a third build automatically. (h01ger) OpenWrt, the distribution specialized in embedded devices like small routers, is now being tested for reproducibility. The situation looks very good for their packages which seems mostly affected by timestamps in the tarball. System images will require more work on debbindiff to be better understood. (h01ger) debbindiff development Reiner Herrmann added support for decompling Java .class file and .ipk package files (used by OpenWrt). This is now available in version 22 released on 2015-06-14. Documentation update Stephen Kitt documented the new --insert-timestamp available since binutils-mingw-w64 version 6.2 available to insert a ready-made date in PE binaries built with mingw-w64. Package reviews 195 obsolete reviews have been removed, 65 added and 126 updated this week. New identified issues: Misc. Holger Levsen reported an issue with the locales-all package that Provides: locales but is actually missing some of the files provided by locales. Coreboot upstream has been quick to react after the announcement of the tests set up the week before. Patrick Georgi has fixed all issues in a couple of days and all Coreboot images are now reproducible (without a payload). SeaBIOS is one of the most frequently used payload on PC hardware and can now be made reproducible too. Paul Kocialkowski wrote to the mailing list asking for help on getting U-Boot tested for reproducibility. Lunar had a chat with maintainers of Open Build Service to better understand the difference between their system and what we are doing for Debian.

17 May 2015

Lunar: Reproducible builds: week 3 in Stretch cycle

What happened about the reproducible builds effort for this week: Toolchain fixes Tomasz Buchert submitted a patch to fix the currently overzealous package-contains-timestamped-gzip warning. Daniel Kahn Gillmor identified #588746 as a source of unreproducibility for packages using python-support. Packages fixed The following 57 packages became reproducible due to changes in their build dependencies: antlr-maven-plugin, aspectj-maven-plugin, build-helper-maven-plugin, clirr-maven-plugin, clojure-maven-plugin, cobertura-maven-plugin, coinor-ipopt, disruptor, doxia-maven-plugin, exec-maven-plugin, gcc-arm-none-eabi, greekocr4gamera, haskell-swish, jarjar-maven-plugin, javacc-maven-plugin, jetty8, latexml, libcgi-application-perl, libnet-ssleay-perl, libtest-yaml-valid-perl, libwiki-toolkit-perl, libwww-csrf-perl, mate-menu, maven-antrun-extended-plugin, maven-antrun-plugin, maven-archiver, maven-bundle-plugin, maven-clean-plugin, maven-compiler-plugin, maven-ear-plugin, maven-install-plugin, maven-invoker-plugin, maven-jar-plugin, maven-javadoc-plugin, maven-processor-plugin, maven-project-info-reports-plugin, maven-replacer-plugin, maven-resources-plugin, maven-shade-plugin, maven-site-plugin, maven-source-plugin, maven-stapler-plugin, modello-maven-plugin1.4, modello-maven-plugin, munge-maven-plugin, ocaml-bitstring, ocr4gamera, plexus-maven-plugin, properties-maven-plugin, ruby-magic, ruby-mocha, sisu-maven-plugin, syncache, vdk2, wvstreams, xml-maven-plugin, xmlbeans-maven-plugin. The following packages became reproducible after getting fixed: Some uploads fixed some reproducibility issues but not all of them: Ben Hutchings also improved and merged several changes submitted by Lunar to linux. Currently untested because in contrib: reproducible.debian.net
Thanks to the reproducible-build team for running a buildd from hell. gregor herrmann
Mattia Rizzolo modified the script added last week to reschedule a package from Alioth, a reason can now be optionally specified. Holger Levsen splitted the package sets page so each set now has its own page. He also added new sets for Java packages, Haskell packages, Ruby packages, debian-installer packages, Go packages, and OCaml packages. Reiner Herrmann added locales-all to the set of packages installed in the build environment as its needed to properly identify variations due to the current locale. Holger Levsen improved the scheduling so new uploads get tested sooner. He also changed the .json output that is used by tracker.debian.org to lists FTBFS issues again but only for issues unrelated to the toolchain or our test setup. Amongst many other small fixes and additions, the graph colors should now be more friendly to red-colorblind people. The fix for pbuilder given in #677666 by Tim Landscheidt is now used. This fixed several FTBFS for OCaml packages. Work on rebuilding with different CPU has continued, a kvm-on-kvm build host has been set been set up for this purpose. debbindiff development Version 19 of debbindiff included a fix for a regression when handling info files. Version 20 fixes a bug when diffing files with many differences toward a last line with no newlines. It also now uses the proper encoding when writing the text output to a pipe, and detects info files better. Documentation update Thanks to Santiago Vila, the unneeded -depth option used with find when fixing mtimes has been removed from the examples. Package reviews 113 obsolete reviews have been removed this week while 77 has been added.

Lunar: Reproducible builds: week 2 in Stretch cycle

What happened about the reproducible builds effort for this week: Media coverage Debian's effort on reproducible builds has been covered in the June 2015 issue of Linux Magazin in Germany. Cover of Linux Magazin June 2015 Article about reproducible builds in Linux Magazin June 2015 Toolchain fixes josch rebased the experimental version of debhelper on 9.20150507. Packages fixed The following 515 packages became reproducible due to changes of their build dependencies: airport-utils, airspy-host, all-in-one-sidebar, ampache, aptfs, arpack, asciio, aspell-kk, asused, balance, batmand, binutils-avr, bioperl, bpm-tools, c2050, cakephp-instaweb, carton, cbp2make, checkbot, checksecurity, chemeq, chronicle, cube2-data, cucumber, darkstat, debci, desktop-file-utils, dh-linktree, django-pagination, dosbox, eekboek, emboss-explorer, encfs, exabgp, fbasics, fife, fonts-lexi-saebom, gdnsd, glances, gnome-clocks, gunicorn, haproxy, haskell-aws, haskell-base-unicode-symbols, haskell-base64-bytestring, haskell-basic-prelude, haskell-binary-shared, haskell-binary, haskell-bitarray, haskell-bool-extras, haskell-boolean, haskell-boomerang, haskell-bytestring-lexing, haskell-bytestring-mmap, haskell-config-value, haskell-mueval, haskell-tasty-kat, itk3, jnr-constants, jshon, kalternatives, kdepim-runtime, kdevplatform, kwalletcli, lemonldap-ng, libalgorithm-combinatorics-perl, libalgorithm-diff-xs-perl, libany-uri-escape-perl, libanyevent-http-scopedclient-perl, libanyevent-perl, libanyevent-processor-perl, libapache-session-wrapper-perl, libapache-sessionx-perl, libapp-options-perl, libarch-perl, libarchive-peek-perl, libaudio-flac-header-perl, libaudio-wav-perl, libaudio-wma-perl, libauth-yubikey-decrypter-perl, libauthen-krb5-simple-perl, libauthen-simple-perl, libautobox-dump-perl, libb-keywords-perl, libbarcode-code128-perl, libbio-das-lite-perl, libbio-mage-perl, libbrowser-open-perl, libbusiness-creditcard-perl, libbusiness-edifact-interchange-perl, libbusiness-isbn-data-perl, libbusiness-tax-vat-validation-perl, libcache-historical-perl, libcache-memcached-perl, libcairo-gobject-perl, libcarp-always-perl, libcarp-fix-1-25-perl, libcatalyst-action-serialize-data-serializer-perl, libcatalyst-controller-formbuilder-perl, libcatalyst-dispatchtype-regex-perl, libcatalyst-plugin-authentication-perl, libcatalyst-plugin-authorization-acl-perl, libcatalyst-plugin-session-store-cache-perl, libcatalyst-plugin-session-store-fastmmap-perl, libcatalyst-plugin-static-simple-perl, libcatalyst-view-gd-perl, libcgi-application-dispatch-perl, libcgi-application-plugin-authentication-perl, libcgi-application-plugin-logdispatch-perl, libcgi-application-plugin-session-perl, libcgi-application-server-perl, libcgi-compile-perl, libcgi-xmlform-perl, libclass-accessor-classy-perl, libclass-accessor-lvalue-perl, libclass-accessor-perl, libclass-c3-adopt-next-perl, libclass-dbi-plugin-type-perl, libclass-field-perl, libclass-handle-perl, libclass-load-perl, libclass-ooorno-perl, libclass-prototyped-perl, libclass-returnvalue-perl, libclass-singleton-perl, libclass-std-fast-perl, libclone-perl, libconfig-auto-perl, libconfig-jfdi-perl, libconfig-simple-perl, libconvert-basen-perl, libconvert-ber-perl, libcpan-checksums-perl, libcpanplus-dist-build-perl, libcriticism-perl, libcrypt-cracklib-perl, libcrypt-dh-gmp-perl, libcrypt-mysql-perl, libcrypt-passwdmd5-perl, libcrypt-simple-perl, libcss-packer-perl, libcss-tiny-perl, libcurses-widgets-perl, libdaemon-control-perl, libdancer-plugin-database-perl, libdancer-session-cookie-perl, libdancer2-plugin-database-perl, libdata-format-html-perl, libdata-uuid-libuuid-perl, libdata-validate-domain-perl, libdate-jd-perl, libdate-simple-perl, libdatetime-astro-sunrise-perl, libdatetime-event-cron-perl, libdatetime-format-dbi-perl, libdatetime-format-epoch-perl, libdatetime-format-mail-perl, libdatetime-tiny-perl, libdatrie, libdb-file-lock-perl, libdbd-firebird-perl, libdbix-abstract-perl, libdbix-class-datetime-epoch-perl, libdbix-class-dynamicdefault-perl, libdbix-class-introspectablem2m-perl, libdbix-class-timestamp-perl, libdbix-connector-perl, libdbix-oo-perl, libdbix-searchbuilder-perl, libdbix-xml-rdb-perl, libdevel-stacktrace-ashtml-perl, libdigest-hmac-perl, libdist-zilla-plugin-emailnotify-perl, libemail-date-format-perl, libemail-mime-perl, libemail-received-perl, libemail-sender-perl, libemail-simple-perl, libencode-detect-perl, libexporter-tidy-perl, libextutils-cchecker-perl, libextutils-installpaths-perl, libextutils-libbuilder-perl, libextutils-makemaker-cpanfile-perl, libextutils-typemap-perl, libfile-counterfile-perl, libfile-pushd-perl, libfile-read-perl, libfile-touch-perl, libfile-type-perl, libfinance-bank-ie-permanenttsb-perl, libfont-freetype-perl, libfrontier-rpc-perl, libgd-securityimage-perl, libgeo-coordinates-utm-perl, libgit-pureperl-perl, libgnome2-canvas-perl, libgnome2-wnck-perl, libgraph-readwrite-perl, libgraphics-colornames-www-perl, libgssapi-perl, libgtk2-appindicator-perl, libgtk2-gladexml-simple-perl, libgtk2-notify-perl, libhash-asobject-perl, libhash-moreutils-perl, libhtml-calendarmonthsimple-perl, libhtml-display-perl, libhtml-fillinform-perl, libhtml-form-perl, libhtml-formhandler-model-dbic-perl, libhtml-html5-entities-perl, libhtml-linkextractor-perl, libhtml-tableextract-perl, libhtml-widget-perl, libhtml-widgets-selectlayers-perl, libhtml-wikiconverter-mediawiki-perl, libhttp-async-perl, libhttp-body-perl, libhttp-date-perl, libimage-imlib2-perl, libimdb-film-perl, libimport-into-perl, libindirect-perl, libio-bufferedselect-perl, libio-compress-lzma-perl, libio-compress-perl, libio-handle-util-perl, libio-interface-perl, libio-multiplex-perl, libio-socket-inet6-perl, libipc-system-simple-perl, libiptables-chainmgr-perl, libjoda-time-java, libjsr305-java, libkiokudb-perl, liblemonldap-ng-cli-perl, liblexical-var-perl, liblingua-en-fathom-perl, liblinux-dvb-perl, liblocales-perl, liblog-dispatch-configurator-any-perl, liblog-log4perl-perl, liblog-report-lexicon-perl, liblwp-mediatypes-perl, liblwp-protocol-https-perl, liblwpx-paranoidagent-perl, libmail-sendeasy-perl, libmarc-xml-perl, libmason-plugin-routersimple-perl, libmasonx-processdir-perl, libmath-base85-perl, libmath-basecalc-perl, libmath-basecnv-perl, libmath-bigint-perl, libmath-convexhull-perl, libmath-gmp-perl, libmath-gradient-perl, libmath-random-isaac-perl, libmath-random-oo-perl, libmath-random-tt800-perl, libmath-tamuanova-perl, libmemoize-expirelru-perl, libmemoize-memcached-perl, libmime-base32-perl, libmime-lite-tt-perl, libmixin-extrafields-param-perl, libmock-quick-perl, libmodule-cpanfile-perl, libmodule-load-conditional-perl, libmodule-starter-pbp-perl, libmodule-util-perl, libmodule-versions-report-perl, libmongodbx-class-perl, libmoo-perl, libmoosex-app-cmd-perl, libmoosex-attributehelpers-perl, libmoosex-blessed-reconstruct-perl, libmoosex-insideout-perl, libmoosex-relatedclassroles-perl, libmoosex-role-timer-perl, libmoosex-role-withoverloading-perl, libmoosex-storage-perl, libmoosex-types-common-perl, libmoosex-types-uri-perl, libmoox-singleton-perl, libmoox-types-mooselike-numeric-perl, libmousex-foreign-perl, libmp3-tag-perl, libmysql-diff-perl, libnamespace-clean-perl, libnet-bonjour-perl, libnet-cli-interact-perl, libnet-daap-dmap-perl, libnet-dbus-glib-perl, libnet-dns-perl, libnet-frame-perl, libnet-google-authsub-perl, libnet-https-any-perl, libnet-https-nb-perl, libnet-idn-encode-perl, libnet-idn-nameprep-perl, libnet-imap-client-perl, libnet-irc-perl, libnet-mac-vendor-perl, libnet-openid-server-perl, libnet-smtp-ssl-perl, libnet-smtp-tls-perl, libnet-smtpauth-perl, libnet-snpp-perl, libnet-sslglue-perl, libnet-telnet-perl, libnhgri-blastall-perl, libnumber-range-perl, libobject-signature-perl, libogg-vorbis-header-pureperl-perl, libopenoffice-oodoc-perl, libparse-cpan-packages-perl, libparse-debian-packages-perl, libparse-fixedlength-perl, libparse-syslog-perl, libparse-win32registry-perl, libpdf-create-perl, libpdf-report-perl, libperl-destruct-level-perl, libperl-metrics-simple-perl, libperl-minimumversion-perl, libperl6-slurp-perl, libpgobject-simple-perl, libplack-middleware-fixmissingbodyinredirect-perl, libplack-test-externalserver-perl, libplucene-perl, libpod-tests-perl, libpoe-component-client-ping-perl, libpoe-component-jabber-perl, libpoe-component-resolver-perl, libpoe-component-server-soap-perl, libpoe-component-syndicator-perl, libposix-strftime-compiler-perl, libposix-strptime-perl, libpostscript-simple-perl, libproc-processtable-perl, libprotocol-osc-perl, librcs-perl, libreadonly-xs-perl, libreturn-multilevel-perl, librivescript-perl, librouter-simple-perl, librrd-simple-perl, libsafe-isa-perl, libscope-guard-perl, libsemver-perl, libset-tiny-perl, libsharyanto-file-util-perl, libshell-command-perl, libsnmp-info-perl, libsoap-lite-perl, libstat-lsmode-perl, libstatistics-online-perl, libstring-compare-constanttime-perl, libstring-format-perl, libstring-toidentifier-en-perl, libstring-tt-perl, libsub-recursive-perl, libsvg-tt-graph-perl, libsvn-notify-perl, libswish-api-common-perl, libtap-formatter-junit-perl, libtap-harness-archive-perl, libtemplate-plugin-number-format-perl, libtemplate-plugin-yaml-perl, libtemplate-tiny-perl, libtenjin-perl, libterm-visual-perl, libtest-block-perl, libtest-carp-perl, libtest-classapi-perl, libtest-cmd-perl, libtest-consistentversion-perl, libtest-data-perl, libtest-databaserow-perl, libtest-differences-perl, libtest-file-sharedir-perl, libtest-hasversion-perl, libtest-kwalitee-perl, libtest-lectrotest-perl, libtest-module-used-perl, libtest-object-perl, libtest-perl-critic-perl, libtest-pod-coverage-perl, libtest-script-perl, libtest-script-run-perl, libtest-spelling-perl, libtest-strict-perl, libtest-synopsis-perl, libtest-trap-perl, libtest-unit-perl, libtest-utf8-perl, libtest-without-module-perl, libtest-www-selenium-perl, libtest-xml-simple-perl, libtest-yaml-perl, libtex-encode-perl, libtext-bibtex-perl, libtext-csv-encoded-perl, libtext-csv-perl, libtext-dhcpleases-perl, libtext-diff-perl, libtext-quoted-perl, libtext-trac-perl, libtext-vfile-asdata-perl, libthai, libthread-conveyor-perl, libthread-sigmask-perl, libtie-cphash-perl, libtie-ical-perl, libtime-stopwatch-perl, libtk-dirselect-perl, libtk-pod-perl, libtorrent, libturpial, libunicode-japanese-perl, libunicode-maputf8-perl, libunicode-stringprep-perl, libuniversal-isa-perl, libuniversal-moniker-perl, liburi-encode-perl, libvi-quickfix-perl, libvideo-capture-v4l-perl, libvideo-fourcc-info-perl, libwiki-toolkit-plugin-rss-reader-perl, libwww-mechanize-formfiller-perl, libwww-mechanize-gzip-perl, libwww-mechanize-perl, libwww-opensearch-perl, libx11-freedesktop-desktopentry-perl, libxc, libxml-dtdparser-perl, libxml-easy-perl, libxml-handler-trees-perl, libxml-libxml-iterator-perl, libxml-libxslt-perl, libxml-rss-perl, libxml-validator-schema-perl, libxml-xpathengine-perl, libxml-xql-perl, llvm-py, madbomber, makefs, mdpress, media-player-info, meta-kde-telepathy, metamonger, mmm-mode, mupen64plus-audio-sdl, mupen64plus-rsp-hle, mupen64plus-ui-console, mupen64plus-video-z64, mussort, newpid, node-formidable, node-github-url-from-git, node-transformers, nsnake, odin, otcl, parsley, pax, pcsc-perl, pd-purepd, pen, prank, proj, proot, puppet-module-puppetlabs-postgresql, python-async, python-pysnmp4, qrencode, r-bioc-graph, r-bioc-hypergraph, r-bioc-iranges, r-bioc-xvector, r-cran-pscl, rbenv, rlinetd, rs, ruby-ascii85, ruby-cutest, ruby-ejs, ruby-factory-girl, ruby-hdfeos5, ruby-kpeg, ruby-libxml, ruby-password, ruby-zip-zip, sdl-sound1.2, stterm, systemd, taktuk, tcc, tryton-modules-account-invoice, ttf-summersby, tupi, tuxpuck, unknown-horizons, unsafe-mock, vcheck, versiontools, vim-addon-manager, vlfeat, vsearch, xacobeo, xen-tools, yubikey-personalization-gui, yubikey-personalization. The following packages became reproducible after getting fixed: Some uploads fixed some reproducibility issues but not all of them: Patches submitted which did not make their way to the archive yet: reproducible.debian.net Alioth now hosts a script that can be used to redo builds and test for a package. This was preliminary done manually through requests over the IRC channel. This should reduce the number of interruptions for jenkins' maintainers The graph of the oldest build per day has been fixed. Maintainance scripts will not error out when they are no files to remove. Holger Levsen started work on being able to test variations of CPU features and build date (as in build in another month of 1984) by using virtual machines. debbindiff development Version 18 has been released. It will uses proper comparators for pk3 and info files. Tar member names are now assumed to be UTF-8 encoded. The limit for the maximum number of different lines has been removed. Let's see on reproducible.debian.net how it goes for pathological cases. It's now possible to specify both --html and --text output. When neither of them is specified, the default will be to print a text report on the standard output (thanks to Paul Wise for the suggestion). Documentation update Nicolas Boulenguez investigated Ada libraries. Package reviews 451 obsolete reviews have been removed and 156 added this week. New identified issues: running kernel version getting captured, random filenames in GHC debug symbols, and timestamps in headers generated by qdbusxml2cpp. Misc. Holger Levsen went to re:publica and talked about reproducible builds to developers and users there. Holger also had a chance to meet FreeBSD developers and discuss the status of FreeBSD. Investigations have started on how it could be made part of our current test system. Laurent Guerby gave Lunar access to systems in the GCC Compile Farm. Hopefully access to these powerful machines will help to fix packages for GCC, Iceweasel, and similar packages requiring long build times.

4 May 2015

Lunar: Reproducible builds: first week in Stretch cycle

Debian Jessie has been released on April 25th, 2015. This has opened the Stretch development cycle. Reactions to the idea of making Debian build reproducibly have been pretty enthusiastic. As the pace is now likely to be even faster, let's see if we can keep everyone up-to-date on the developments. Before the release of Jessie The story goes back a long way but a formal announcement to the project has only been sent in February 2015. Since then, too much work has happened to make a complete report, but to give some highlights: Lunar did a pretty improvised lightning talk during the Mini-DebConf in Lyon. This past week It seems changes were pilling behind the curtains given the amount of activity that happened in just one week. Toolchain fixes We also rebased the experimental version of debhelper twice to merge the latest set of changes. Lunar submitted a patch to add a -creation-date to genisoimage. Reiner Herrmann opened #783938 to request making -notimestamp the default behavior for javadoc. Juan Picca submitted a patch to add a --use-date flag to texi2html. Packages fixed The following packages became reproducible due to changes of their build dependencies: apport, batctl, cil, commons-math3, devscripts, disruptor, ehcache, ftphs, gtk2hs-buildtools, haskell-abstract-deque, haskell-abstract-par, haskell-acid-state, haskell-adjunctions, haskell-aeson, haskell-aeson-pretty, haskell-alut, haskell-ansi-terminal, haskell-async, haskell-attoparsec, haskell-augeas, haskell-auto-update, haskell-binary-conduit, haskell-hscurses, jsch, ledgersmb, libapache2-mod-auth-mellon, libarchive-tar-wrapper-perl, libbusiness-onlinepayment-payflowpro-perl, libcapture-tiny-perl, libchi-perl, libcommons-codec-java, libconfig-model-itself-perl, libconfig-model-tester-perl, libcpan-perl-releases-perl, libcrypt-unixcrypt-perl, libdatetime-timezone-perl, libdbd-firebird-perl, libdbix-class-resultset-recursiveupdate-perl, libdbix-profile-perl, libdevel-cover-perl, libdevel-ptkdb-perl, libfile-tail-perl, libfinance-quote-perl, libformat-human-bytes-perl, libgtk2-perl, libhibernate-validator-java, libimage-exiftool-perl, libjson-perl, liblinux-prctl-perl, liblog-any-perl, libmail-imapclient-perl, libmocked-perl, libmodule-build-xsutil-perl, libmodule-extractuse-perl, libmodule-signature-perl, libmoosex-simpleconfig-perl, libmoox-handlesvia-perl, libnet-frame-layer-ipv6-perl, libnet-openssh-perl, libnumber-format-perl, libobject-id-perl, libpackage-pkg-perl, libpdf-fdf-simple-perl, libpod-webserver-perl, libpoe-component-pubsub-perl, libregexp-grammars-perl, libreply-perl, libscalar-defer-perl, libsereal-encoder-perl, libspreadsheet-read-perl, libspring-java, libsql-abstract-more-perl, libsvn-class-perl, libtemplate-plugin-gravatar-perl, libterm-progressbar-perl, libterm-shellui-perl, libtest-dir-perl, libtest-log4perl-perl, libtext-context-eitherside-perl, libtime-warp-perl, libtree-simple-perl, libwww-shorten-simple-perl, libwx-perl-processstream-perl, libxml-filter-xslt-perl, libxml-writer-string-perl, libyaml-tiny-perl, mupen64plus-core, nmap, openssl, pkg-perl-tools, quodlibet, r-cran-rjags, r-cran-rjson, r-cran-sn, r-cran-statmod, ruby-nokogiri, sezpoz, skksearch, slurm-llnl, stellarium. The following packages became reproducible after getting fixed: Some uploads fixed some reproducibility issues but not all of them: Patches submitted which did not make their way to the archive yet: Improvements to reproducible.debian.net Mattia Rizzolo has been working on compressing logs using gzip to save disk space. The web server would uncompress them on-the-fly for clients which does not accept gzip content. Mattia Rizzolo worked on a new page listing various breakage: missing or bad debbindiff output, missing build logs, unavailable build dependencies. Holger Levsen added a new execution environment to run debbindiff using dependencies from testing. This is required for packages built with GHC as the compiler only understands interfaces built by the same version. debbindiff development Version 17 has been uploaded to unstable. It now supports comparing ISO9660 images, dictzip files and should compare identical files much faster. Documentation update Various small updates and fixes to the pages about PDF produced by LaTeX, DVI produced by LaTeX, static libraries, Javadoc, PE binaries, and Epydoc. Package reviews Known issues have been tagged when known to be deterministic as some might unfortunately not show up on every single build. For example, two new issues have been identified by building with one timezone in April and one in May. RD and help2man add current month and year to the documentation they are producing. 1162 packages have been removed and 774 have been added in the past week. Most of them are the work of proper automated investigation done by Chris West. Summer of code Finally, we learned that both akira and Dhole were accepted for this Google Summer of Code. Let's welcome them! They have until May 25th before coding officialy begins. Now is the good time to help them feel more comfortable by sharing all these little bits of knowledge on how Debian works.

9 May 2011

Evgeni Golov: playing sick games (RC-bugs 2011/18)

I ve been a little sick the last days and decided to be productive instead of just drinking tea all the time.The result are some (10) squashed bugs from pkg-games, and one long standing nmu.adonthell#624998 LP#765984
FTBFS: py_adonthell_wrap.cc:27357:44: error: taking address of temporary [-fpermissive]
Patch by Peter De Wachter, I just had to sign and upload.alex4#624884
FTBFS: stat.h:106:22: error: expected identifier or ( before [' token
Include defs.h *after* particle.h, thus not redifining __unused from glibc's bits/stat.hfenix#554286 LP#770962
FTBFS with binutils-gold
Fixed since 0.92a.dfsg1-6, bug closed. Found different FTBFS though, fix uploaded as -9.freeciv#554411
FTBFS with binutils-gold
Closed after verifying that it is fixed since at least 2.2.1 as upstream wrote.kball#624978
FTBFS: src/gamemenu.cpp:224:52: error: 'mkdir' was not declared in this scope
Include sys/stat.h in 06_homedir_game.patch and 07_homedir_editor.patch.kiki-the-nano-bot#625047 LP#770970
FTBFS: ../src/../SWIG/KikiPy_wrap.cpp:13045:63: error: taking address of temporary [-fpermissive]
Patch by Peter De Wachter, I just had to sign and upload.late#624937 LP#770857
FTBFS: ball.h:113:19: error: NULL was not declared in this scope
Include stddef.h in ball.h to define NULL.libclaw#625038 #624919 LP#770805
FTBFS: avl_base.hpp:137:15: error: ptrdiff_t does not name a type
Patch by Julien Jorge, I just had to sign and upload.liquidwar#555468
FTBFS with binutils-gold
Patch by Stephen Kitt, I just had to sign and upload.lordsawar#555564
FTBFS with binutils-gold
Closed after verifying that it is fixed since at least 0.1.8xnecview#621392
FTBFS on armel: expected identifier before numeric constant
R0 is already taken as a register name on armel, rename xnecview s constant to DEFFAULTR0. (Patch basically stolen from Ubuntu)