Bug#1144480: qgis regressed in reproducibility

[Sebastiaan Couwenberg]

On 8/15/26 7:43 PM, Jochen Sprickerhof wrote:
> src:qgis in unstable can't migrate to testing because the QA
> infrastructure couldn't reproduce the some binary packages in
> unstable while it could reproduce the version in testing [1, 2].

AFAIK qgis has never been reproducible.

It's also big and takes far too long to build making troubleshooting a PITA.

> From the diff it looks like some randomness is compiled in, maybe due to
> some auto generated source code? Based on the diff to -1 it could also
> be in some other package.

glibc is my suspect.

> Feel free to reach out if you need help debugging the problem but I
> assume it will not be easy. Alternatively you can ask the release team
> for an exception [3].

You're welcome to spend time trying to fix the reproducibility regression, I was already planning to contact the RT after glibc migrates.

Kind Regards,

Bas

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