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

Sune Vuorela nospam at vuorela.dk
Fri Nov 13 19:13:00 GMT 2020


On 2020-10-27, Vagrant Cascadian <vagrant at reproducible-builds.org> wrote:
> Though, of course, identifying the exact reproducibility problem would
> be preferable. One of the common issues is test suites relying on the
> behavior of __FILE__ returning a full path to find fixtures or other
> test data.

has QFIND_TESTDATA been adapted to work with this, or are we just
"lucky" that most packages don't actually build and run test suites?

I don't think that we should make it harder for maintainers to enable
test suites on their packages, when we can just record the filepath in
the build info and still have things reproducible.

/Sune




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