On 2015-01-03 15:47 +0100, Jérémy Bobbio wrote: > Sven Joachim: >> I am not strictly opposed to your patch, but I think the problem should >> be tackled elsewhere, so that fewer packages need to be modified. > > In our experimental toolchain, packages built using `dh` will > automatically call `dh_strip_nondeterminism`. Packages using `dh` are > the 60% plateau you can see on: > https://jenkins.debian.net/userContent/stats_pkg_state.png > > Since a few days, we are getting more packages considered reproducible > as we moved generation of the .buildinfo files to dpkg-buildpackage > instead of doing it as a dh stop. > >> Have you considered filing a wishlist bug against binutils to build with >> "--enable-deterministic-archives", so that ar and ranlib operate in >> deterministic mode by default? > > Yes. This is how we did the experiment in January last year: > https://wiki.debian.org/ReproducibleBuilds/Rebuild20140126 > > During discussions at DebConf14, it was acknowledged that having > `--enable-deterministic-archives` could break some build systems in > subtle ways and that it would be better to do without. Unfortunately, > I have never been able to get Matthias Klose's opinion on the matter.
Apparently doko thinks that `--enable-deterministic-archives` is a good idea, since he implemented it in binutils 2.25-6. :-) Is there still anything I need to do in ncurses? Cheers, Sven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org