Reproducible builds folks: Reproducible Builds: Weekly report #130
Here's what happened in the Reproducible Builds effort between Sunday October 15 and Saturday October 21 2017:
- The Tails project published a report on how they made their ISO images reproducible.
- dpkg 1.19.0 was uploaded, including support for:
- Ordering the "unused substitution" warnings to prevent superfluous differences between logs of package builds on the Reproducible Builds test framework. (#870221)
- A new
Build-Kernel-Versionfield in.buildinfofiles that can be generated with a newdpkg-genbuildinfo --always-include-kerneloption. (#873937)
- On Saturday 21st October, Holger Levsen presented at All Systems Go! in Berlin, Germany on reproducible builds. A video recording is available already.
- On Tuesday 24th October, Chris Lamb will present at All Things Open 2017 in Raleigh, NC, USA.
- On Wednesday 25th October, Holger Levsen will present at the Open Source Summit Europe in Prague, Czech Republic.
- On Saturday 28th October, Chris Lamb will present at freenode.live in Bristol, UK.
- From October 31st November 2nd we will be holding the 3rd Reproducible Builds summit in Berlin, Germany. If you are working in the field of reproducible builds, you should definitely attend. Please see our public invitation mail and contact us if you have any questions.
- On Tuesday 24th Oct Ed Maste from FreeBSD will be presenting some reproducible builds work for students.
- On From Tuesday 24th of October to Monday 7th of November students will work on fixing reproducibility issues brought up by the community. A milestone presentation will be held by Santiago Torres-Arias and Preston Moore.
- On Tuesday 7th November Holger Levsen will join the NYU team to wrap up the work.
- Adrian Bunk:
- #878883 filed against stoken.
- #878896 filed against liquidsoap.
- #878980 filed against belenios.
- #879042 filed against tuxpaint-config.
- #879223 filed against websockify.
- Chris Lamb:
- #878707 filed against python-amqp (randomness in documentation).
- #878708 filed against geographiclib (build paths).
- #879169 filed against live-build (timestamps).
- Gilles Filippini:
- Bernhard M. Wiedemann:
- singularity (tar+gz)
- redis (date)
- tbb (date)
- nested (sort)
- nested (date)
- Aaron M. Ucko (1)
- Adrian Bunk (49)
- Anthony DeRobertis (1)
- Daniel Schepler (1)
- Gilles Filippini (1)
- James Cowgill (1)
- Matthias Klose (1)
- Matthias Klumpp (1)
- Nobuhiro Iwamatsu (1)
- Ximin Luo:
- Chris Lamb:
- Clojure considers the
.classfile to be stale if it shares the same timestamp of the.clj. We thus adjust the timestamps of the.cljto always be younger. (#877418) dh_strip_nondeterminism: Log which handler processed a file. (#876140)bin/strip-nondeterminism: Print a warning in--verbosemode if no canonical time specified.- Use HTTPS URI in
debian/watch.
- Clojure considers the
- Ximin Luo:
- Santiago Torres-Arias:
- An Arch Linux User Repository package for reprotest has been created.]
- Holger Levsen:
- Install
rustcon Jenkins for thereproducible-html-build-path-prefix-map-specjob.
- Install
- Mattia Rizzolo:
health_check: Include the running kernel version when reporting multiple kernel installed in/boot.
- Holger Levsen:
- Berlin 2017:
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Thanks to the great work of Nobuhiro Iwamatsu and others, Debian has an unofficial

apt-build-mirror.
I was discussing this idea with Iwamatsu for the last few days, and I'm coming up with a prototype.
Another one of these joke projects, but a fun one.