Updating dpkg-buildflags to enable reproducible=+fixfilepath by default

Vagrant Cascadian vagrant at reproducible-builds.org
Mon Nov 9 20:05:53 GMT 2020


On 2020-10-27, Vagrant Cascadian wrote:
> The dpkg-buildflags feature reproducible=+fixfilepath was added to dpkg
> in 2018.
...
> The result of enabling this feature by default will be to make several
> hundred packages reproducible with varying build-path and reduce the
> differences in many other packages, making it easier to identify other
> more nuanced reproducibility issues.
>
> It would be great to see the reproducible=+fixfilepath feature enabled
> by default in dpkg-buildflags, and we would like to proceed forward with
> this soon unless we hear any major concerns or other outstanding issues.

Given no objections or concerns of any kind raised in the last two
weeks, I've submitted a bug against dpkg:

  https://bugs.debian.org/974087


live well,
  vagrant
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