New submission from Bernhard M. Wiedemann: See https://reproducible-builds.org/ and https://reproducible-builds.org/docs/buy-in/ for why this is a good thing to have in general.
Fedora, openSUSE and possibly other Linux distributions package .pyc files as part of their binary rpm packages and they are not trivial to drop [1]. A .pyc header includes the timestamp of the source .py file which creates non-reproducible builds when the .py file is touched during build time (e.g. for a version.py). As of 2017-02-10 in openSUSE Factory this affected 476 packages (such as python-amqp and python3-Twisted). [1] http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-packaging/2017-02/msg00086.html ---------- components: Build, Distutils messages: 288880 nosy: bmwiedemann, dstufft, merwok priority: normal pull_requests: 353 severity: normal status: open title: support reproducible Python builds versions: Python 2.7, Python 3.3, Python 3.4, Python 3.5, Python 3.6 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue29708> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
