hope help reproducible-build to support Debian riscv64 arch

[Paul Wise]

On Thu, 2022-06-09 at 13:25 +0200, Mattia Rizzolo wrote:

> Oh, interesting.  TIL.

The docs are relatively new, at one point we had a few folks who had
never contributed to Debian show up wanting to convert their company's
internal port of Debian for their company's CPU arch into an official
Debian port.

I figured it was time to document the process and so helmut, josch,
guillem, aurel32, other folks and myself translated the PortTemplate
page (which I created as a more organised alternative to current port
pages) into a proper checklist that ideally every port could comply
with. I consider reproducible builds (and bootstrappable builds) an
essential part of any ideal port, so I of course mentioned both.

https://wiki.debian.org/PortTempate

The architectures they were interested in are ARC from Synopsis and
LoongArch from Loongson, who used to make MIPS chips. Later we had some
people new to Debian wanting to improve riscv64, so the new port docs
proved useful for guiding them too.

https://wiki.debian.org/Ports/arc
https://wiki.debian.org/Ports/loongarch64

> > Since repro builds […] is a blocker for testing migration,
> 
> Ahem, I'd really love if that was the case, but it really isn't at
> the moment.

Hmm, I wonder how I got this so wrong. I thought britney was taking
into account repro builds tests in some way, maybe blocking regressions
or reducing migration time, I guess I was remembering the 2019 thread
about this but completely misremembering the outcome, wooops!

https://lists.debian.org/msgid-search/f6a50af4-9857-d491-0d7b-bf4cadd796d4@debian.org

If you'd prefer to move repro builds to a different section, please
edit the docs or let me know which stage is most appropriate for it.
That can of course change as circumstances in Debian change.

https://wiki.debian.org/PortsDocs/New

-- 
bye,
pabs

https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
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