[Reproducible-builds] dpkg_1.18.1.0~reproducible5 ftbfs

[Guillem Jover]

Hi!

On Fri, 2015-07-31 at 16:49:13 +0200, Holger Levsen wrote:
> so yesterday I tried to build 
> http://reproducible.alioth.debian.org/debian/dpkg_1.18.1.0~reproducible5.dsc 
> with pbuilder on sid/armhf and that failed _exactly_ like 
> https://reproducible.debian.net/rbuild/unstable/amd64/dpkg_1.18.1.0~reproducible5.rbuild.log
> 
> I then tried to build dpkg_1.18.1.dsc from sid proper and that built 
> flawlessly on sid/armhf.
> 
> Thus I conclude our reproducible patches cause this, whatever this is. Yet I 
> lack time atm to debug this, so this mail is merely a note to Guillem and a 
> call for help to the reproducible folks.

Right, I noticed this quite some time ago, but forgot to bring it up.
W/o having checked anything, it might be that whoever prepared the
release perhaps forgot to «autoreconf -f -i» the sources and prepared
it from a previous .dsc instead of a git tree?

> I've now also added dpkg to the 
> https://reproducible.debian.net/issues/unstable/ftbfs_in_jenkins_setup_issue.html 
> issues, which will make sure the ftbfs issue will soon (tomorrow, I think) not 
> show up on https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/dpkg anymore.

Appreciated.

Thanks,
Guillem