Source: xz-utils Version: 5.1.1alpha+20120614-2.1 Severity: normal User: reproducible-builds@lists.alioth.debian.org Usertags: environment X-Debbugs-Cc: reproducible-builds@lists.alioth.debian.org, sanv...@debian.org
Hi! While working on the “reproducible builds” effort [1], we have noticed that xz-utils could not be built reproducibly. When dash is the default shell, the configure script m4/posix-shell.m4 will select /bin/bash as the “conforming POSIX shell”. When bash is the default shell, /bin/sh will be selected. The binary package currently in sid on amd64 uses /bin/bash. As bash is currently Essential:yes (#103284), this is probably not a problem. But I wonder if they would not be troubles if the package was built on an environment were bash is the default shell, but later installed on a system where /bin/dash is /bin/sh. So for reproducibility and safety reason, it would be best if the selected path to the shell would not depend on the build environment. Thanks! [1]: https://wiki.debian.org/ReproducibleBuilds -- Lunar .''`. lu...@debian.org : :Ⓐ : # apt-get install anarchism `. `'` `-
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