Bug#935127: bash: please make the build reproducible

[Matthias Klose]

On 10/16/20 12:58 AM, Chris Lamb wrote:
> Hi Matthias Klose,
> 
>>>> Bash is one of the few remaining packages in the 'Essential' package
>>>> set that remains unreproducible, and this patch has been in the BTS
>>>> for over a year now.
>>>
>>> So, there are now only two packages in the Essential set that are
>>> unreproducible. I plan to work on the other package (Perl) shortly,
>>> but having Bash fixed in the archive itself would be very welcome
>>> and motivating withal.
>>
>> really?  No libgcc in the essential set? yes, it would be motivating if you
>> would address the GCC issues upstream and not keeping a set of local patches.
> 
> Unfortunately I don't understand the hostility of this reply or how
> it is relevant to Bash.

Hostility?  You started speaking about "motivation" here.  If you need that,
fine.  But then why demotivate others by keeping local patches and not working
on upstreaming those?  It's now years that the reproducible builds project
doesn't address some of it's more fundamental issue with compilers.

Demotivated, Matthias