[Reproducible-builds] .buildinfo should contain source hashes (as well as binary hashes)

Jérémy Bobbio lunar at debian.org
Mon Sep 21 11:33:45 UTC 2015


Ximin Luo:
> > Implementation-wise, getting the hash of the .dsc in the .buildinfo is
> > going to be very tricky. dpkg does not know about what's available in
> > the archive. It just knows about packages which are or were installed.
> > 
> 
> `apt-cache showsrc [pkg]` has the right information in there, but it's a bit messy. I need to test this without a deb-src line, though.

Building Debian packages doesn't involve APT in any ways. There is
currently no coupling in the direction dpkg → APT.

(That's why we need to get hash of the binary packages in
/var/lib/dpkg/status before they can be written in dpkg-genbuildinfo.)

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