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.

Another point release for Etch has been done; now it's the time for the CD team to roll out new images after the next mirror pulse. The official announcements (prepared by Alexander Reichle-Schmehl, thanks!) will follow shortly afterwards. FTP master of the day was Joerg Jaspert, who did his first point release since Woody, as he told us on IRC. We appreciate your work and you spending your time that shortly before going to Argentina. This point release includes the etchnhalf update introducing a new kernel image (based on 2.6.24) and some driver updates. Additionally the infamous openssl hole will be fixed for good, even for new installs. Again I want to present you a list of people who contributed to this release. It cannot be complete as I got the information out of the Changed-by fields of the uploads.

• akira yamada
• Alexander Sack
• Alexander Schmehl
• A Mennucc1
• Andrea De Iacovo
• Andres Salomon
• Aurelien Jarno
• Charles Plessy
• Christian Perrier
• Christian Welzel
• Colin Watson
• dann frazier (indefatigable kernel worker, most sourceful uploads)
• Darren Salt
• Devin Carraway (3rd place of sourceful uploads, due to security work)
• Emmanuel Lacour
• Eric Dorland
• Fabio Tranchitella
• Faidon Liambotis
• Fathi Boudra
• Florian Weimer
• Francesco Paolo Lovergine
• Francois Marier
• Frank Lichtenheld
• Frans Pop (thanks for your d-i work!)
• Frederic Peters
• Gregory Colpart
• Holger Levsen
• Jan Wagner
• Jay Berkenbilt
• J r my Bobbio
• Joey Hess
• Joey Schulze
• Josselin Mouette
• Julien Cristau
• Kai Hendry
• Kurt Roeckx
• LaMont Jones
• Laszlo Boszormenyi
• Martin Pitt
• maximilian attems
• Michael Biebl
• Michael Koch
• Mike Hommey
• Moritz Muehlenhoff
• Noah Meyerhans
• Ola Lundqvist
• Otavio Salvador
• Patrick Matth i
• Petter Reinholdtsen
• Philipp Kern
• Pierre Habouzit
• Raphael Hertzog
• Rene Engelhard
• Robert Millan
• Roberto Lumbreras
• Roland Mas
• Romain Beauxis
• Russ Allbery
• Sean Finney
• Stefan Fritsch
• Steffen Joeris
• Stephen Gran
• Steve Kemp
• Sune Vuorela
• Thijs Kinkhorst (2nd place of sourceful uploads, due to security work)
• Thomas Viehmann
• Toni Mueller
• Tzafrir Cohen

From the Release Team we had dann frazier (who drove the important kernel part of etchnhalf), Luk Claes, Neil McGovern, Andreas Barth, Martin Zobel-Helas and me working on it. ;-)