Bug#914133: perl: Storable probes for user limits at build time, leading to reproducibility issues

[Holger Levsen]

clone 914133 -1
reassign -1 jenkins.debian.org
retitle -1 reproducible: introduce user limits variations
thanks

Hi Niko,

On Mon, Nov 19, 2018 at 08:40:37PM +0200, Niko Tyni wrote:
> It looks like the Storable build (in dist/Storable) probes at build time
> for the system stack size limit, and bakes that into the build result
> for using it at run time for recursion limit checks.
 
oh dear :) & nice catch!

> Copying the reproducible-builds list in case somebody there wants to look
> at this. Feel free to fix the usertag if there's a better one.
 
I think 'environment' might be a better one, as in it leaks the
environment into the result.

> (User limits such as this might be an idea for variations on
>  tests.reproducible-builds.org variations if they aren't varied already?

thats a great idea indeed. any suggestions on which limits to vary and
how much?


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cheers,
	Holger

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