--- layout: blog week: 120 published: 2017-08-17 21:08:55 --- Here's what happened in the [Reproducible Builds](https://reproducible-builds.org) effort between Sunday 6th and Saturday 12th August 2017: * There were two talks mainly about Reproducible Builds at [DebConf17](https://debconf17.debconf.org): * [Reproducible builds: Status update](https://debconf17.debconf.org/talks/14/) by Chris Lamb, Holger Levsen, Maria Glukhova, Steven Chamberlain, Vagrant Cascadian, Valerie Young and Ximin Luo. * [Fun with .buildinfo](https://debconf17.debconf.org/talks/91/) by Steven Chamberlain. * Reproducible builds were also mentioned in many other talks including: * [Using Qubes OS from the POV of a Debian developer ](https://debconf17.debconf.org/talks/16/) by Holger Levsen. * [Debian for Medical Software](https://debconf17.debconf.org/talks/165/) by André Roth. * [Let's maintain jenkins.debian.org as a team ](https://debconf17.debconf.org/talks/120/) by Holger Levsen. * [Signing package contents: why and how ](https://debconf17.debconf.org/talks/174/) by Matthew Garrett. * [Bits from the DPL](https://debconf17.debconf.org/talks/63/) by Chris Lamb. * [Installing Debian](https://debconf17.debconf.org/talks/116/) by Vagrant Cascadian. * [in-toto -- Securing supply chains as a whole ](https://debconf17.debconf.org/talks/100/) by Lukas Puehringer. * [Debian Cloud BoF](https://debconf17.debconf.org/talks/26/) by Steve McIntyre. * [Will there be Debian in your next BMW car?](https://debconf17.debconf.org/talks/33/) by Aigars Mahinovs. * There has also been substantial activity regarding updating the [Debian Policy](https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/) regarding Reproducible Builds ([#844431](https://bugs.debian.org/844431)). This work is still ongoing and will be covered in future issues of this weekly blog. Notes about reviews of unreproducible packages ---------------------------------------------- 13 package reviews have been added, 7 have been updated and 34 have been removed in this week, adding to our knowledge about [identified issues](https://tests.reproducible-builds.org/debian/index_issues.html). Packages reviewed and fixed, and reproducibility related bugs filed ------------------------------------------------------------------- * Adrian Bunk: * [#871818](https://bugs.debian.org/871818) filed against [debian-zh-faq](https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/debian-zh-faq). * [#871907](https://bugs.debian.org/871907) filed against [praat](https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/praat). * Katsuhiko Nishimra: * [#871591](https://bugs.debian.org/871591) filed against [llvm-toolchain-snapshot](https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/llvm-toolchain-snapshot). * Lucas Nussbaum: * [#871059](https://bugs.debian.org/871059) filed against [fltk1.3](https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/fltk1.3). * [#871155](https://bugs.debian.org/871155) filed against [brltty](https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/brltty). * [#871159](https://bugs.debian.org/871159) filed against [texlive-extra](https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/texlive-extra). * [#871345](https://bugs.debian.org/871345) filed against [texlive-base](https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/texlive-base). * [#871349](https://bugs.debian.org/871349) filed against [ispell-uk](https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/ispell-uk). * [#871357](https://bugs.debian.org/871357) filed against [po4a](https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/po4a). * jathan: * [#870890](https://bugs.debian.org/870890) filed against [apg](https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/apg). Upstream packages: * Bernhard M. Wiedemann: * [enblend](https://sourceforge.net/p/enblend/code/ci/a98e00eed893f62dd8349fc2894abca3aff4b33a/) (merged), `SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH` support * [systemtap](https://sourceware.org/ml/systemtap/2017-q3/msg00104.html) * [splint](https://github.com/ravenexp/splint/issues/8) (dead project) * [skelcd-openSUSE](https://github.com/openSUSE/skelcd-openSUSE/pull/6) Other bugs filed ---------------- * During our reproducibility testing, Adrian Bunk filed 48 FTBFS bugs this week. diffoscope development ---------------------- - Mattia Rizzolo: - [debian/copyright: coalesce some file paragraphs and update information.](https://salsa.debian.org/reproducible-builds/diffoscope/commit/cb9e148) - [Bump Standards-Version to 4.0.1, no changes needed.](https://salsa.debian.org/reproducible-builds/diffoscope/commit/831ed83) trydiffoscope development ------------------------- - Chris Lamb: - [Test --help output in autopkgtests](https://salsa.debian.org/reproducible-builds/trydiffoscope.git/commit/?id=eb71e92) tests.reproducible-builds.org ----------------------------- - Mattia: - Notify `the `#debian-reproducible-changes` IRC channel for unreproducible -> FTBFS transitions. - Update `squid.conf` for all nodes to 5.2.23 (and fixup some). - Enable the Munin Squid plugin on the Codethink `arm64` nodes as well. - Force reconfiguration of Apache and Munin when `update_jdn.sh` is updated. - Holger worked on slides for his DebConf17 BoF about migrating to `jenkins.debian.org`, which affects tests.r-b.o as well. Misc. ----- This week's edition was written by Chris Lamb & Holger Levsen & reviewed by a bunch of Reproducible Builds folks on IRC & the mailing lists.