Bug#881937: diffoscope: Doesn't show differences in .deb's control.tar.xz (regression?)

2017-11-28 Thread Axel Beckert
Ximin Luo wrote: > Axel Beckert: > > Even "--fuzzy-threshold 0" to disable any "fuzzy-matching" (whatever > > that is in the context of diffoscope) didn't make a difference. > > > > Actually, the problem is the other way round - control.tar.{g

Bug#881937: diffoscope: Doesn't show differences in .deb's control.tar.xz (regression?)

2017-11-16 Thread Axel Beckert
more existing transitional package heirloom-mailx. │ │ │ │ + │ │ │ │ + -- Axel Beckert Thu, 16 Nov 2017 18:48:45 +0100 │ │ │ │ + │ │ │ │ aptitude-robot (1.5.2-1) unstable; urgency=medium │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │* Version 1.5.2 (only bug fixes and documentation updates) │ │ │ │ + Use mktemp

Re: [debhelper-devel] "Rules-Requires-Root: no" vs ExtUtils::Install + dh_strip_nondeterminism

2017-10-29 Thread Axel Beckert
s (and not weeks) to get this fix into unstable. But that's just my wish. :-) Regards, Axel -- ,''`. | Axel Beckert , https://people.debian.org/~abe/ : :' : | Debian Developer, ftp.ch.debian.org Admin `. `' |

Re: [debhelper-devel] "Rules-Requires-Root: no" vs ExtUtils::Install + dh_strip_nondeterminism

2017-10-28 Thread Axel Beckert
Hi Mattia, Mattia Rizzolo wrote: > On Sat, Oct 28, 2017 at 02:21:37PM +0200, Axel Beckert wrote: > > Do I understand it correctly that with "Rules-Requires-Root: no" the > > root:root ownership is only set by dh_builddeb? > > Well, by dpkg-deb of course :) > C

Re: [debhelper-devel] "Rules-Requires-Root: no" vs ExtUtils::Install + dh_strip_nondeterminism

2017-10-28 Thread Axel Beckert
omments on that idea. > For me, the proper solution is 1) while 2) and 3) are work-arounds and > hacks. But 2) makes the package build slightly faster and shows a > higher confidence in the reproducible properties of the package, where > 3) makes it a bit slower and punts the strip-no

Re: [Pkg-zsh-devel] Bug#764650: zsh: FTBFS with noatime mounts

2017-09-18 Thread Axel Beckert
Control: tag -1 - moreinfo + confirmed Control: found -1 5.4.2-1 Control: found -1 5.3.1-4 Control: retitle -1 zsh: FTBFS with noatime mounts (e.g. on reproducible builds armhf nodes) Hi, Axel Beckert wrote: > Thorsten Glaser wrote: > > ../../Test/C02cond.ztst: test failed. > >

LeMaker HiKey960 boards arrived (was: Re: [Reproducible-builds] arm64 reproducible build network)

2017-06-12 Thread Axel Beckert
ture currently only lists AOSP as available for the Hikey960 while you also can get Linaro and "Debian" images for the Hikey620. So far for today. More maybe tomorrow. Regards, Axel -- ,''`. | Axel Beckert , http://people.debian.org/~abe/ : :' :

Re: [Reproducible-builds] arm64 reproducible build network

2016-12-06 Thread Axel Beckert
needed? As a power supply e.g. this one might suffice: http://www.pollin.de/shop/dt/MjUyODQ2OTk-/Stromversorgung/Ladegeraete/USB_Ladegeraete/4_fach_USB_Lader_LOGILINK_PA0096_weiss.html Regards, Axel -- ,''`. | Axel Beckert , http://people.debian.org/~abe/ : :'

Re: "[Reproducible-builds]" mailing list tag dropped from subject?

2016-09-06 Thread Axel Beckert
r) slightly modified to my .procmailrc. Thanks Santiago! (And yes, reproducible-builds mails go directly in my inbox.) Regards, Axel -- ,''`. | Axel Beckert , http://people.debian.org/~abe/ : :' : | Debian Developer, ftp.ch.debian.org Admin `. `' | 4096

"[Reproducible-builds]" mailing list tag dropped from subject?

2016-09-06 Thread Axel Beckert
#x27;s so helpful to quickly notice which bug reports came in via (which) mailing list and which are ones for packages I'm interested in. TIA! Regards, Axel -- ,''`. | Axel Beckert , http://people.debian.org/~abe/ : :' : | Debian Developer, ftp.ch.debian.or

Re: Bug#835592: php-crypt-gpg: FTBFS: Tests: 286, Assertions: 514, Errors: 77, Failures: 8, Skipped: 8

2016-08-30 Thread Axel Beckert
Hi Daniel, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: > On Tue 2016-08-30 06:49:30 -0400, Axel Beckert wrote: > > Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: > >> However, if your next upload of php-crypt-gpg can't be built or run > >> against modern versions of GnuPG, then you probably n

Re: Bug#835592: php-crypt-gpg: FTBFS: Tests: 286, Assertions: 514, Errors: 77, Failures: 8, Skipped: 8

2016-08-30 Thread Axel Beckert
en nowadays? Regards, Axel -- ,''`. | Axel Beckert , http://people.debian.org/~abe/ : :' : | Debian Developer, ftp.ch.debian.org Admin `. `' | 4096R: 2517 B724 C5F6 CA99 5329 6E61 2FF9 CD59 6126 16B5 `-|

Re: [Reproducible-builds] Deprecating plain dpkg-buildpackage

2016-08-27 Thread Axel Beckert
ojects runs at full speed. So IMHO the reproducible builds projects has taken over the task of reporting FTBFS noticed by rebuilding packages -- independent of being planned to do so or not. Regards, Axel -- ,''`. | Axel Beckert , http://people.debian.org/~abe/ : :

Re: [Reproducible-builds] [pkg-wml] Bug#833437: mp4h: please make the build reproducible

2016-08-04 Thread Axel Beckert
turn the same value. :-) Note to myself: A nice test which often different values is this: $ perl -E 'say ""x15' | nice -n 20 mp4h | tail -3 Regards, Axel -- ,''`. | Axel Beckert , http://people.debian.org/~abe/ : :' : | Debian D

Re: [Reproducible-builds] Why is pyrit not reproducible on i386?

2016-07-03 Thread Axel Beckert
to determine > why it's using linux-x86_64 in the build path in that case. Me neither, sorry. Regards, Axel -- ,''`. | Axel Beckert , http://people.debian.org/~abe/ : :' : | Debian Developer, ftp.ch.debian.org Admin `. `' | 4096R: 2517 B724 C5F6

[Reproducible-builds] Bug#829113: Bug#829113: reprotest: Should unset $DISPLAY to avoid GUI popups from some build tools

2016-07-01 Thread Axel Beckert
Hi, Jérémy Bobbio wrote: > Axel Beckert: > > Running > > > > $ reprotest 'dpkg-buildpackage -b' > > ../debian-paketmanagement-buch_0\~2016.06.29_all.deb > > > > from a git checkout of commit 5f069a920df4e6f20a8eb9309c20c39ad60e6132 > > un

[Reproducible-builds] Bug#829113: reprotest: Should unset $DISPLAY to avoid GUI popups from some build tools

2016-06-30 Thread Axel Beckert
Hi, Axel Beckert wrote: >* What was the outcome of this action? > > Two GUI popups from ebook-convert (from the package calibre) moaning > about non-existent $HOME and hence unreadable $HOME/.config/… Here's an example of the first of these popups.

[Reproducible-builds] Bug#829115: diffoscope: …/comparators/ps.py: TypeError: cannot use a string pattern on a bytes-like object

2016-06-30 Thread Axel Beckert
Package: diffoscope Version: 54 Dear Maintainer, running reprotest (It's there now, yay! :-) over my very recently accepted package dpmb (from git commit 5f069a920df4e6f20a8eb9309c20c39ad60e6132) with reprotest 'dpkg-buildpackage -b' ../debian-paketmanagement-buch_0\~2016.06.29_all.deb caused

[Reproducible-builds] Bug#829113: reprotest: Should unset $DISPLAY to avoid GUI popups from some build tools

2016-06-30 Thread Axel Beckert
Package: reprotest Version: 0.1 Dear Maintainer, * What led up to the situation? Testing my package dpmb with reprotest. * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or ineffective)? Running $ reprotest 'dpkg-buildpackage -b' ../debian-paketmanagement-buch_0\~2016.06.

Re: [Reproducible-builds] Bug#828636: libembperl-perl: please make the build reproducible

2016-06-26 Thread Axel Beckert
Hi again, Axel Beckert wrote: > > It's actually related to the shell... > > > > $ touch aD bD cD dD eD AD BD > > $ dash -c "ls *[a-z]D" > > aD bD cD dD eD > > $ bash -c "ls *[a-z]D" > > aD AD bD BD cD dD eD &g

Re: [Reproducible-builds] Bug#828636: Bug#828636: libembperl-perl: please make the build reproducible

2016-06-26 Thread Axel Beckert
!elf! ;-) > So yes, I guess we can remove this document. > > Implemented in git; I'm holding off with a second hasty upload, sorry > for the first one. Oh, meh. Reiner Herrmann wrote: > On Sun, Jun 26, 2016 at 05:07:54PM +0200, Axel Beckert wrote: > > I currently f

Re: [Reproducible-builds] Bug#828636: libembperl-perl: please make the build reproducible

2016-06-26 Thread Axel Beckert
fail to see why this can catch Embperl::Syntax::POD in one build, but not in another. IMHO this should happen with every build. Will investigate. Regards, Axel -- ,''`. | Axel Beckert , http://people.debian.org/~abe/ : :' : | Debian Developer, ftp.ch.debian.org

Re: [Reproducible-builds] Bug#828145: mkdocs: please make the output reproducible

2016-06-25 Thread Axel Beckert
oducible-builds mailing list back in May: https://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/reproducible-builds/Week-of-Mon-20160509/005463.html Regards, Axel -- ,''`. | Axel Beckert , http://people.debian.org/~abe/ : :' : | Debian Developer, ftp.ch.debian.org Admin `.

Re: [Reproducible-builds] Fwd: Re: [Python-modules-team] Bug#824266: mkdocs: Please support SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH specification for build time stamps [origin: b...@debian.org]

2016-05-18 Thread Axel Beckert
Hi again, Axel Beckert wrote: > could someone more python-savvy than me have a look at this claim that > our SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH example for Python on > https://wiki.debian.org/ReproducibleBuilds/TimestampsProposal#Examples > is wrong. > > The claim is here: > https://git

[Reproducible-builds] Fwd: Re: [Python-modules-team] Bug#824266: mkdocs: Please support SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH specification for build time stamps [origin: b...@debian.org]

2016-05-18 Thread Axel Beckert
- Forwarded message from Brian May - Date: Tue, 17 May 2016 09:16:36 +1000 From: Brian May To: Axel Beckert , 824...@bugs.debian.org Subject: Re: [Python-modules-team] Bug#824266: mkdocs: Please support SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH specification for build time stamps Sender: Brian May Organization: Debian

Re: [Reproducible-builds] [Python-modules-team] Bug#824266: mkdocs: Please support SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH specification for build time stamps

2016-05-15 Thread Axel Beckert
Hi Brian, Brian May wrote: > Axel Beckert writes: > > mkdocs integrates build time stamps into the documentation it is > > generating. This makes at least unburden-home-dir no more reproducibly > > building because it now uses mkdocs to generate HTML documentation at > &g

[Reproducible-builds] Bug#824266: mkdocs: Please support SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH specification for build time stamps

2016-05-14 Thread Axel Beckert
Package: mkdocs Version: 0.15.3-3 Severity: wishlist User: reproducible-builds@lists.alioth.debian.org Usertags: timestamps toolchain Control: affects -1 unburden-home-dir djangorestframework Hi, mkdocs integrates build time stamps into the documentation it is generating. This makes at least unbu

Re: [Reproducible-builds] getting dpkg ready for reproducible sid

2016-05-09 Thread Axel Beckert
ingful when TL2016 will be released and reach debian. It actually has reached Debian about a month ago, but just in Experimental: https://packages.qa.debian.org/t/texlive-base/news/20160417T170437Z.html Regards, Axel -- ,''`. | Axel Beckert , http://pe

Re: [Reproducible-builds] Wrong reproducibility reported for libdevel-cover-perl? (i.e. I suspect a false negative)

2016-04-22 Thread Axel Beckert
f what has been tried. Cool! > So, yes, we are not varying the build path, and we're aware of it :) Thanks again for all the details. That makes it much easier to understand the general issue. Looking forward to what will happen next on that topic. :-) Regards, Axel --

Re: [Reproducible-builds] Wrong reproducibility reported for libdevel-cover-perl? (i.e. I suspect a false negative)

2016-04-22 Thread Axel Beckert
le répertoire « /build/libdevel-cover-perl-1.21 » Meh. Is it really that bad if we also take the build path into account? I think also using different build paths would really dig up some real bugs like the one I fought with last night. Regards, Axel -- ,''`.

[Reproducible-builds] Wrong reproducibility reported for libdevel-cover-perl? (i.e. I suspect a false negative)

2016-04-21 Thread Axel Beckert
also make the second build differ in the build directory name to catch such issues. In case the latter is already done, I'm out of ideas why that package counts as reproducibly buildable. Regards, Axel -- ,''`. | Axel Beckert , http://people.debian.or

Re: [Reproducible-builds] Raspi 3 suitable for arm64?

2016-03-06 Thread Axel Beckert
Hi Holger, Holger Levsen wrote: > On Sonntag, 6. März 2016, Axel Beckert wrote: > > I now wonder if a bunch of Raspberry Pi 3 -- since they have 64-bit > > CPUs (IIRC an Allwinner A53T) -- would make us able to check > > reproducible-builds for Debian arm64, too. > > a

Re: [Reproducible-builds] Raspi 3 suitable for arm64? (was: new armhf node (Odroid-XU4))

2016-03-06 Thread Axel Beckert
(IIRC an Allwinner A53T) -- would make us able to check reproducible-builds for Debian arm64, too. Regards, Axel -- ,''`. | Axel Beckert , http://people.debian.org/~abe/ : :' : | Debian Developer, ftp.ch.debian.org Admin `. `' | 4096R: 2517 B724 C5F6 CA

Re: [Reproducible-builds] Bug#812428: libgcrypt20: please make the build reproducible (timestamps)

2016-01-24 Thread Axel Beckert
Hi again, Axel Beckert wrote: > > /usr/share/doc/autotools-dev/README.Debian.gz says: > > > > >> Do NOT use dh-autoreconf and dh_autotools-dev_* helpers at the same > > >> time, dh-autoreconf takes care of updating config.sub and > > >> config.gue

Re: [Reproducible-builds] Bug#812428: libgcrypt20: please make the build reproducible (timestamps)

2016-01-24 Thread Axel Beckert
rg/698765 for the bug which argues that the text cited above is not entirely correct. Regards, Axel -- ,''`. | Axel Beckert , http://people.debian.org/~abe/ : :' : | Debian Developer, ftp.ch.debian.org Admin `. `' | 4096R: 2517 B724 C5F6 CA99 5329 6E61

Re: [Reproducible-builds] [multiple bugs] FTBFS: /usr/bin/ld: seaview.o: relocation R_X86_64_32 against `.rodata.str1.1' can not be used when making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC

2016-01-04 Thread Axel Beckert
clearly related as they emitted the same error. p4vasp also FTBFS since the recent fltk1.3 upload (#809712), but with different linking issues. I concur with the p4vasp maintainer that these issues are likely all related to each other via #809825 (libfltk1.3-dev: fltk-config setting hardening fl

[Reproducible-builds] Broken HTML on diffoscope.org

2015-12-13 Thread Axel Beckert
Hi, there seems to be a missing "" on https://diffoscope.org/ behind the link to http://brew.sh/. Well, actually it's a "" which behaves like a missing one. Regards, Axel -- ,''`. | Axel Beckert , http://people.debian.org/~abe/ : :' :

Re: [Reproducible-builds] Bug#807111: libperl-apireference-perl: Make the stored data reproducible between builds

2015-12-05 Thread Axel Beckert
ers of that module won't be happy if canonical=1 is hardcoded that way, e.g. for (guessed) performance reasons as the above likely includes sorting which always has an performance impact at some scale. Regards, Axel -- ,''`. | Axel Beckert , http://people.debian.

Re: [Reproducible-builds] Bug#803064: fte: please make the build reproducible

2015-10-26 Thread Axel Beckert
Thanks. I'll likely apply the patch once https://ftp-master.debian.org/new/fte_0.50.2b6-7.html has been accepted. Regards, Axel -- ,''`. | Axel Beckert , http://people.debian.org/~abe/ : :' : | Debian Developer, ftp.ch.debian.org Admin `. `' | 4096R:

Re: [Reproducible-builds] Recent issues with faketime in debian/rules during reproducible-builds builds

2015-10-19 Thread Axel Beckert
I've added some SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH support, I can maybe get rid of faketime and still get many of the issues fixed. Then again, in the upload from yesterday I didn't seem to catch all timestamps inside the documentation fixed. Regards, Axel -- ,''`. |

Re: [Reproducible-builds] Recent issues with faketime in debian/rules during reproducible-builds builds

2015-10-19 Thread Axel Beckert
d all chroots are set up the very same way (changes between build1 and build2 are done at run-time, the underlying chroot is the same)" He also scheduled a new build of mp4h and it no more FTBFS'ed: https://reproducible.debian.net/history/mp4h.html So this was a non-deterministic issue as it see

[Reproducible-builds] Recent issues with faketime in debian/rules during reproducible-builds builds

2015-10-18 Thread Axel Beckert
Regards, Axel -- ,''`. | Axel Beckert , http://people.debian.org/~abe/ : :' : | Debian Developer, ftp.ch.debian.org Admin `. `' | 4096R: 2517 B724 C5F6 CA99 5329 6E61 2FF9 CD59 6126 16B5 `-| 1024D: F067

[Reproducible-builds] All Recommends of diffoscope lost with upload of version 32?

2015-09-03 Thread Axel Beckert
Hi, it seems that the Recommends of diffoscope are generated dynamically and all lost with the upload of version 32. Is this on purpose? If not, feel free to open a bug report in my name with this mail. Regards, Axel -- ,''`. | Axel Beckert , http://people.debia

Re: [Reproducible-builds] Bug#782879: Bug#782878: [debhelper-devel] Bug#782879 + Bug#782878: lib{test-log4perl, scalar-defer}-perl: please make the build reproducible

2015-05-24 Thread Axel Beckert
h may not be > desirable. Having debhelper set POD_MAN_DATE would affect only Debian > packages, which would be a less controversial change. Sounds sane to me. I'd volunteer to implement that in debhelper if there's no opposition. Regards, Axel -- ,

Re: [Reproducible-builds] Bug#782879 + Bug#782878: lib{test-log4perl, scalar-defer}-perl: please make the build reproducible

2015-04-19 Thread Axel Beckert
le time stamps to that date? Cc'ing the reproducible builds project as well as the debhelper maintainers for input. Regards, Axel -- ,''`. | Axel Beckert , http://people.debian.org/~abe/ : :' : | Debian Developer,

Re: [Reproducible-builds] Bug#780259: Bug#780259: perl: please make the output of Pod::Man reproducible

2015-03-31 Thread Axel Beckert
Hi, Holger Levsen wrote: > On Dienstag, 31. März 2015, Axel Beckert wrote: > > So where is the difference between > > > > * setting all files in a binary package to the time stamp defined by > > the package's changelog entry, and > > > > * run

Re: [Reproducible-builds] Bug#780259: perl: please make the output of Pod::Man reproducible

2015-03-31 Thread Axel Beckert
log entry's time stamp also includes a time zone. So where is the difference between * setting all files in a binary package to the time stamp defined by the package's changelog entry, and * running a build under a timezone defined by the package's changelog entry -- or under UT

[Reproducible-builds] Bug#779566: zsh: Making the build reproducible

2015-03-02 Thread Axel Beckert
eneratedByLaTeX) Regards, Axel -- ,''`. | Axel Beckert , http://people.debian.org/~abe/ : :' : | Debian Developer, ftp.ch.debian.org Admin `. `' | 1024D: F067 EA27 26B9 C3FC 1486 202E C09E 1D89 9593 0EDE `-| 4096R: 2517 B724 C5F6

[Reproducible-builds] Bug#778462: faketime: does not work in Jessie/Sid chroots running on Wheezy installations/kernel ("sem_open: Function not implemented")

2015-02-15 Thread Axel Beckert
Package: faketime Version: 0.9.6-3 Severity: important User: reproducible-builds@lists.alioth.debian.org Usertags: toolchain timestamps Control: affects -1 zsh Dear Daniel, running faketime in a Jessie or Sid chroot on a Wheezy installation fails as follows: # lsb_release -a No LSB modules are a

[Reproducible-builds] Bug#777405: perl: pod2man puts object references into man page headers when used inside a pipe

2015-02-07 Thread Axel Beckert
Package: perl Version: 5.20.1-5 User: reproducible-builds@lists.alioth.debian.org Usertags: toolchain, randomness Affects: wml Dear Perl Package Maintainers, Dear Russ, > What led up to the situation? Trying to make my package "wml" building reproducibly: https://reproducible.debian.net/rb-pkg/w

[Reproducible-builds] Bug#772029: Bug#772029: debbindiff: please avoid hardcoded use of VIm

2015-02-03 Thread Axel Beckert
nas would do that as well. :-) > The issues I have are a) pulling in 28.8MB on my system, and b) > introducing an editor that messes with system priorities among editors. Yeah, here, too... Regards, Axel -- ,''`. | Axel Beckert , http://people.debian.org/~a