Bug#1088144: cdbs: please remove support for dh-buildinfo, superseded by .buildinfo

[Holger Levsen]

On Sat, Nov 23, 2024 at 08:33:50PM +0000, James Addison wrote:
> I'm an occasional volunteer contributor to the Reproducible Builds[1] project,
> and noticed recently that a reasonably large (1000+) number of Haskell packages
> fail to rebuild deterministically according to the https://reproduce.debian.net
> test infrastructure.

many thanks for this very neat bug report, James.

# (on unstable/amd64)
$ apt-file search buildinfo_amd64.gz|wc -l
2457
$ apt-file search buildinfo_all.gz|wc -l
1304
# (there are 71961 binary packages in unstable/amd64 today)

however (as you can see if you replace wc with less) it affects more than 
just haskell packages, so (as you indicated) it's probably also cdbs
packages.

I intend to file an RM bug for dh-buildinfo tomorrow, though writing this I'm
not sure why I'm holding this off, it has had its last maintainer upload in
2016, when dpkg got .buildinfo file support:

https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/dh-buildinfo

(I then expect to file more bugs which will be blockers for that RM bug,
which is why I'm not filing that RM bug right away. :)


-- 
cheers,
	Holger

 ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀
 ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁  holger@(debian|reproducible-builds|layer-acht).org
 ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀  OpenPGP: B8BF54137B09D35CF026FE9D 091AB856069AAA1C
 ⠈⠳⣄

I have a joke about trickle down economics. 99% of you won’t ever get it.
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: signature.asc
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 833 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <http://alioth-lists.debian.net/pipermail/reproducible-bugs/attachments/20241123/d55b19c7/attachment.sig>