Bug#803547: bbswitch: please make the build reproducible

[Luca Boccassi]

On Sun, 2016-05-29 at 22:47 -0700, Vincent Cheng wrote:
> 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. :)

Thank you!

Kind regards,
Luca Boccassi
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