[Reproducible-builds] Bug#819194: dpkg-buildflags: please add normalizedebugpath to reproducible feature set

[Holger Levsen]

Hi,

On Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 09:36:00PM -0400, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:
> This isn't fun-spoiling, it's a useful reality check.  But if we were
> required to get all the way to 100% before we made any progress, then
> reproducible builds wouldn't have gotten off the ground at all.

it's surely progress on the gcc/clang side of things but dropping the
build path from the .buildinfo files would be a huge step *backwards*
for reproducibility…

> The changes proposed in this bug report are a good step that should
> handle a very large proportion of the debian archive.  The fact that
> there will remain corners of the archive that need additional work is
> fine: we can turn our attention to the remaining 20% once we get 80% of
> the buildpaths resolved.

true. 

my point was: I think we still need the build path in the .buildinfo files.

(And btw, this (build path in buildinfo files) is not what *this* bug report 
is about. but it's related.)

Also, c/c++ packages today only make up a small portion of the archive.
Probably this famous someone should do a rebuild of the archive, using
our toolchain (and this patch), using arbitrary build pathes.


-- 
cheers,
	Holger


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