Bug#844431: Revised patch: seeking seconds

[Adrian Bunk]

On Wed, Aug 16, 2017 at 10:24:07AM +0000, Mattia Rizzolo wrote:
> On Tue, 15 Aug 2017, 11:02 p.m. Adrian Bunk <bunk at debian.org> wrote:
> 
> > Tracker:
> > https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/hsqldb1.8.0
> > "Does not build reproducibly during testing"
> 
> And indeed it's not reproducible according to policy: it's storing the
> build user at the very least.
>...

What makes you so confident that this package is not reproducible 
according to policy?

According to policy, storing the value of $USER in the binary
is clearly permitted for a reproducible package. [1]

As long as the reproducible builds infrastructure varies $USER instead 
of following the policy definition, it is not suitable for determining 
whether or not a package is reproducible according to policy.

And what the reproducible builds infrastructure pushes as
   Does not build reproducibly during testing
to tracker and DDPO is therefore not usable for determining
reproducibility according to policy.

cu
Adrian

[1] I haven't checked what exactly this package does

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