[Reproducible-builds] Bug#791574: strip-nondeterminism: failure in zip.pm, breaking package builds

[Mattia Rizzolo]

[o.o the subject somehow went huge! ]

On Fri, Jul 17, 2015 at 01:14:41PM -0700, Andrew Ayer wrote:
> On Fri, 17 Jul 2015 19:53:27 +0000
> Mattia Rizzolo <mattia at mapreri.org> wrote:
> 
> > i was aware some packages started build-depending on it, but nothing
> > like this. Also, broken (and also missing, fwiw) build-dep does not
> > causes removal from testing [1], so that's sound weird+wrong.
> > 
> > Can you tell me of such package so i can get a look at what's going
> > on more closely?
> 
> Hi Mattia,
> 
> According to https://packages.qa.debian.org/s/strip-nondeterminism.html:
> 
> The removal of strip-nondeterminism will also cause the removal of
> (transitive) reverse dependencies: astroquery cpl-plugin-amber
> cpl-plugin-fors cpl-plugin-giraf cpl-plugin-hawki cpl-plugin-kmos
> cpl-plugin-muse cpl-plugin-sinfo cpl-plugin-uves cpl-plugin-vimos
> cpl-plugin-visir cpl-plugin-xshoo debram pyavm pyfits pyscanfcs
> python-astropy python-cpl python-pywcs veusz

Thanks. I'm a tracker.d.o user and that does not provide such info (=> #792738)


Anyway, i asked for a bit of help to the RT [0] and discovered some things,
like that autoremovals calculations is done by UDD and not anything run by them
and that it does consider also build-dependencies.


Looks like python-astropy build-dep on strip-nondetermism, and that (sadly) you
(= astro team) did [1]. Personally I find shameful that a maintainer need such
hack for a fail on our parts, please DO poke use more hardly the next time.


strip-nondetermism is already fixed in git, soon will be uploaded too, so i
think you can drop that workaround. And please accept my forgivness for this.



[0] that means nthykier and adsb, thank you!
[1] http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/debian-astro/packages/python-astropy.git/commit/?id=0c73b4e109897ed5bf885815304c0a96342e59ff
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