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:
- #797432 on torus-trooper by Reiner Herrmann: set locale to
C when sorting source file list.
- #797437 on flow-tools by Chris Lamb: use pre-defined hostname and date of the latest
debian/changelog entry in build string.
- #797505 on cloudprint by Chris Lamb: remove embedded
.pyc files.
- #797506 on comix by Chris Lamb: remove embedded
.pyc files.
- #797508 on litl by Chris Lamb: remove date from documentation generated with LaTeX.
- #797518 on gyoto by Chris Lamb: set date in documentation generated with LaTeX to the latest
debian/changelog entry.
- #797539 on cadabra by Chris Lamb: use date of the latest
debian/changelog entry as build time.
- #797543 on xotcl by Chris Lamb: sort source list in Makefile.
- #797579 on ferret-vis by Chris Lamb: use date of the latest
debian/changelog entry as build time.
- #797711 on libkinosearch1-perl by Niko Tyni: sort source list in
Build.PL.
- #797871 on xbae by Chris Lamb: use date of the latest
debian/changelog entry as build time.
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:
- A new
--fuzzy-threshold option to specify the TLSH score used as cut-off
for fuzzy matching. Specifying 0 will disable fuzzy-matching entirely.
Suggested by Jakub Wilk.
- A new
--new-file option to treat absent files as empty. This make diffoscope a great
tool to look at the content of an archive at once by comparing it with a non-existent
file (example).
Suggested by Jakub Wilk.
- Comparisons of symlinks and devices given on the command line is now possible.
- Default values are displayed in
--help.
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.
As of today, thanks to the tremendous work of the French localization
team in Debian,