maintaining reproducible-notes over the long term

[Vagrant Cascadian]

On 2020-12-18, Mattia Rizzolo wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 18, 2020 at 12:53:53PM +0000, Holger Levsen wrote:
>> >  yet also see value in keeping history a little easier to
>> > reach than grepping through git logs.
>> 
>> right.
>> 
>> you also said on irc:
>> 
>> "please wait at least until packages are verified as reproducible in 
>> bullseye on all architectures before removing them from
>> reproducible-notes ... there are some packages which have intermitant
>> reproducibility issues"
>> 
>> which AIUI can be solved by adjusting the scripts Mattia is running
>> in cron.
>
> The thing is, the script removes archived bugs and issues that are not
> reproduced anymore and marked as "deterministic" in issues.yml.
> I read over the diff after that's done and manually remove notes for
> packages that I confirm are indeed fixed (mostly, because the changelog
> says it fixed those issues indeed) and which comments just describe what
> the problem used to be.
>
> Having the script blindly remove the "comment" section would be
> dangerous, as that could easily accidentally remove stuff that was meant
> to be preserved.

Ok. It was unclear to me which parts were automated and which parts were
manual.


> Vagrant: did you perhaps notice that I (manually or automatically?)
> removed notes for stuff that indeed shouldn't have been removed?

Maybe these all fall into the categories you're saying (although dynare
isn't reproducible on arm64, due to non-deterministic issues), although
since they haven't propegated to bullseye yet, I would think it would be
good to leave them open till the bugs are archived, or at least verified
fixed in bullseye?

4ecce9d22a41868b4d0ba2c81e0d25fe81838a2c
https://tests.reproducible-builds.org/debian/rb-pkg/unstable/amd64/bowtie2.html

e6adafa12eb7a9f0a9e4d79a4db7b468a5725d50
https://tests.reproducible-builds.org/debian/rb-pkg/unstable/amd64/dynare.html

a50358f1fe94ea5d2d62b57a716a3a120ef6aacd
https://tests.reproducible-builds.org/debian/rb-pkg/unstable/amd64/cctools.html


Or maybe just had different expectations without the background of when
some of these decisions were made. :)


Thanks for all the maintenance!


live well,
  vagrant
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