[Reproducible-builds] getting dpkg ready for reproducible sid

Guillem Jover guillem at debian.org
Mon May 16 23:17:08 UTC 2016


On Tue, 2016-05-10 at 12:54:04 +0300, Niko Tyni wrote:
> On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 10:34:08AM +0200, Guillem Jover wrote:
> > On Mon, 2016-05-09 at 12:26:13 +0000, Holger Levsen wrote:
> > > f.) add support for .buildinfo files
> > 
> > I need to finish commenting on this, hopefully in the coming days.
> > 
> > And wasn't it missing at least man pages for the .buildinfo file?
> 
> Thanks, deb-buildinfo(5) is indeed mentioned in #138409 but doesn't
> seem to be done yet. Lunar said in January he'd "rather make sure we all
> agree on the fields before getting to it."

Right, I saw that, but the bulk of the work is writing the man page,
renaming few fields if necessary does not seem comparable, and I'm
fine doing that myself if it ends up being necessary.

> I suppose that mostly refers
> to the ones currently called Environment and Installed-Build-Depends?
> Is consensus any nearer now than in February?

Sorry, I've not gone over the thread again yet.

> > > g.) teach dpkg-genbuildinfo the new --build=[...] syntax
> > 
> > This should be squashed in the existing patch before submission.
> 
> It's squashed in the current pu/reproducible_builds branch fwiw,
> this was just a changelog comment.

Ah ok, perfect!

Thanks,
Guillem



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