Bug#803547: bbswitch: please make the build reproducible

[Vincent Cheng]

Hi Luca,

On Sun, May 29, 2016 at 5:27 AM, Luca Boccassi <luca.boccassi at gmail.com> wrote:
> Control: -1 tags pending
>
> On Sat, 2015-10-31 at 10:56 +0100, Reiner Herrmann wrote:
>> Source: bbswitch
>> Version: 0.8-2
>> Severity: wishlist
>> Tags: patch
>> User: reproducible-builds at lists.alioth.debian.org
>> Usertags: umask
>> X-Debbugs-Cc: reproducible-builds at lists.alioth.debian.org
>>
>> Hi!
>>
>> While working on the "reproducible builds" effort [1], we have noticed
>> that bbswitch could not be built reproducibly.
>> The permissions inside a tarball vary because of different umasks.
>>
>> The attached patch tells tar to normalize the permissions.
>>
>> Regards,
>>  Reiner
>>
>> [1]: https://wiki.debian.org/ReproducibleBuilds
>
> Hello Reiner,
>
> Thanks for the patch, Vincent has applied it to Git so it will be in the
> next upload.
>
> I had noticed that the CI was reporting this problem for i386/armhf, but
> hadn't got around to look into it yet.
>
> Andreas, Vincent,
>
> There is movement again upstream but I don't think there will be a new
> release soon, and I don't think we have anything pending ourselves, so
> IMHO we can upload this already.

Ok, I've gone ahead and uploaded bbswitch a few minutes ago.

> I'm happy to take care of it, if one of you whitelists my key for the
> package. Thanks!

Of course. :)

Regards,
Vincent