Bug#1146142: boinc: regressed in reproducibility

[Jochen Sprickerhof]

Source: boinc
Version: 8.2.15+dfsg-10
Severity: normal
X-Debbugs-Cc: Gianfranco Costamagna <locutusofborg at debian.org>, reproducible-bugs at lists.alioth.debian.org
User: reproducible-builds at lists.alioth.debian.org
Usertags: randomness

Hi,

boinc in unstable can't migrate to testing because the QA
infrastructure couldn't reproduce the binary packages in unstable while
it could reproduce the version in testing [1, 2].

The problem seems to be that the libboinc.a in libboinc-app-dev on arm64
contains lto and debug information when rebuild but not in the original
build. I have no idea why that happens but I also found no users of the
libboinc.a so I would propose to drop it from the package. Alternatively
there are some hints on how to make static archives in [4].

Feel free to reach out if you need help debugging the problem.
Alternatively you can ask the release team for an exception [3].

Cheers Jochen


[1] https://qa.debian.org/excuses.php?package=boinc
[2] https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2026/05/msg00001.html
[3] https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2026/05/msg00383.html
[4] https://reproducible-builds.org/docs/archives/