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Reproducible Builds: Weekly report #96

Published: Feb 28, 2017.


Here’s what happened in the Reproducible Builds effort between Sunday February 19 and Saturday February 25 2017:

Reproducible work in other projects

Upcoming Events

Introduction to Reproducible Builds will be presented by Vagrant Cascadian at Scale15x in Pasadena, California, March 5th.

On March 23rd Holger Levsen will give a talk at the German Unix User Group’s “Frühjahrsfachgespräch” about Reproducible Builds everywhere.

Verifying Software Freedom with Reproducible Builds will be presented by Vagrant Cascadian at Libreplanet2017 in Boston, March 25th-26th.

Packages reviewed and fixed, and bugs filed

Chris Lamb:

Reviews of unreproducible packages

9 package reviews have been added, 3 have been updated and 1 has been removed in this week, adding to our knowledge about identified issues.

Weekly QA work

During our reproducibility testing, the following FTBFS bugs have been detected and reported by:

  • Chris Lamb (4)

diffoscope development

diffoscope is our in-depth and content-aware diff utility that can locate and diagnose reproducibility issues.

  • diffoscope 77 was unblocked by the release team for stretch.
  • Mattia Rizzolo uploaded 77~bpo8+1 to jessie-backports.

buildinfo.debian.net development

buildinfo.debian.net is our experiment into how to process, store and distribute .buildinfo files after the Debian archive software has processed them.

Website development

tests.reproducible-builds.org

  • Ed Maste made the upcoming FreeBSD release almost 100% reproducible (see above).
  • Holger Levsen added the number of configured and running builder jobs to the performance stats page.
  • Holger Levsen improved the scheduler, so that untested packages and versions are tried sooner.
  • Holger added logging for submitting .buildinfo files to `buildinfo.debian.net and added notification about this failure.
  • Holger also made some minor improvements to the generated HTML.

Misc.

This week’s edition was written by Chris Lamb, Ed Maste & Levsen and reviewed by a bunch of Reproducible Builds folks on IRC & the mailing lists.


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