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Reproducible Builds: Weekly report #181

Published: Oct 16, 2018.


Here’s what happened in the Reproducible Builds effort between Sunday October 7 and Saturday October 13 2018:

Another brief reminder that another Reproducible Builds summit will be taking place between 11th—13th December 2018 in Mozilla’s offices in Paris. If you are interested in attending please send an email to holger@layer-acht.org. More details can also be found on the corresponding event page of our website.

diffoscope development

diffoscope is our in-depth “diff-on-steroids” utility which helps us diagnose reproducibility issues in packages) was updated this week, including contributions from:

Packages reviewed and fixed, and bugs filed

Test framework development

There were a large number of updates to our Jenkins-based testing framework that powers tests.reproducible-builds.org by Holger Levsen this week, including:

In addition, Mattia Rizzolo performed some node administration (1, 2).

Misc.

This week’s edition was written by Bernhard M. Wiedemann, Chris Lamb, Holger Levsen & reviewed by a bunch of Reproducible Builds folks on IRC & the mailing lists.


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