[Reproducible-commits] [misc] 01/01: draft for reproducible builds weekly news, #49, mostly written by Lunar

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Author: Holger Levsen <holger at layer-acht.org>
Date:   Sat Apr 9 12:52:01 2016 +0200

    draft for reproducible builds weekly news, #49, mostly written by Lunar
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+[[!meta title="Reproducible builds: week 49 in Stretch cycle"]]
+[[!tag reproducible_builds]]
+
+What happened in the [reproducible
+builds](https://wiki.debian.org/ReproducibleBuilds) effort between March 27th and April 2nd:
+
+Media coverage
+--------------
+
+Toolchain fixes
+---------------
+
+ * Emmanuel Bourg uploaded [ant](https://tracker.debian.org/ant)/1.9.6-2 which makes the Tstamp task support the `SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH` variable, and the Javadoc task use `en` as the default locale if none was specified and `SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH` is set.
+
+Packages fixed
+--------------
+
+The following packages have become reproducible due to changes in their
+build dependencies:
+[ctioga2](https://tracker.debian.org/ctioga2),
+[erlang-bitcask](https://tracker.debian.org/erlang-bitcask),
+[libcommons-collections3-java](https://tracker.debian.org/libcommons-collections3-java),
+[libjgoodies-animation-java](https://tracker.debian.org/libjgoodies-animation-java),
+[libjide-oss-java](https://tracker.debian.org/libjide-oss-java),
+[octave-gsl](https://tracker.debian.org/octave-gsl),
+[octave-interval](https://tracker.debian.org/octave-interval),
+[octave-io](https://tracker.debian.org/octave-io),
+[octave-quaternion](https://tracker.debian.org/octave-quaternion),
+[octave-signal](https://tracker.debian.org/octave-signal),
+[octave-stk](https://tracker.debian.org/octave-stk),
+[segment](https://tracker.debian.org/segment),
+[service-wrapper-java](https://tracker.debian.org/service-wrapper-java),
+[sqlline](https://tracker.debian.org/sqlline),
+[svnkit](https://tracker.debian.org/svnkit),
+[uddi4j](https://tracker.debian.org/uddi4j),
+[velocity-tools](https://tracker.debian.org/velocity-tools).
+
+The following packages became reproducible after getting fixed:
+
+ * [angular.js](https://tracker.debian.org/angular.js)/1.3.20-3 uploaded by Laszlo Boszormenyi, [patch](https://bugs.debian.org/819325) by Dhole.
+ * [boa-constructor](https://tracker.debian.org/boa-constructor)/0.6.1-16 by Reiner Herrmann.
+ * [fgetty](https://tracker.debian.org/fgetty)/0.7-1 by Dmitry Bogatov.
+ * [hexchat](https://tracker.debian.org/hexchat)/2.12.0-1 uploaded by Jesse Rhodes, [fixed upstream](https://github.com/hexchat/hexchat/commit/0a8248578fc9188adf4c983729e4cd775c4d52bd).
+ * [littlewizard](https://tracker.debian.org/littlewizard)/1.2.2-4 uploaded by Kari Pahula, [original patch](https://bugs.debian.org/818686) by Reiner Herrmann.
+ * [logback](https://tracker.debian.org/logback)/1:1.1.6-1 by Emmanuel Bourg.
+ * [pcsxr](https://tracker.debian.org/pcsxr)/1.9.94-2 by James Cowgill.
+ * [pybtex](https://tracker.debian.org/pybtex)/0.19-2 by Daniel Stender.
+ * [python-structlog](https://tracker.debian.org/python-structlog)/16.0.0-1 by Filippo Giunchedi.
+ * [sbmltoolbox](https://tracker.debian.org/sbmltoolbox)/4.1.0-3 by Afif Elghraoui, [original patch](https://bugs.debian.org/819263) by Reiner Herrmann.
+ * [tiles](https://tracker.debian.org/tiles)/2.2.2-7 by Emmanuel Bourg.
+
+Some uploads fixed some reproducibility issues, but not all of them:
+
+ * [dash](https://tracker.debian.org/dash)/0.5.8-2.2 uploaded by Niels Thykier, [original patch](https://bugs.debian.org/774425) by Lunar.
+ * [gle-graphics](https://tracker.debian.org/gle-graphics)/4.2.5-4 by Christian T. Steigies.
+ * [prospector](https://tracker.debian.org/prospector)/0.11.7-6 by Daniel Stender.
+ * [therion](https://tracker.debian.org/therion)/5.3.16-10 by Wookey.
+ * [vim](https://tracker.debian.org/vim)/2:7.4.1689-1 uploaded by James McCoy, [original patch](https://bugs.debian.org/787327) by Reiner Herrmann.
+
+Patches submitted which have not made their way to the archive yet:
+
+ * [#783239](https://bugs.debian.org/783239) on [kexec-tools](https://tracker.debian.org/kexec-tools) by Lunar: follow-up patch to cope with locale variations.
+ * [#819347](https://bugs.debian.org/819347) on [starvoyager](https://tracker.debian.org/starvoyager) by Sascha Steinbiss: sort the list of input object files.
+ * [#819352](https://bugs.debian.org/819352) on [xpdf](https://tracker.debian.org/xpdf) by Sascha Steinbiss: sort the list of linked object files.
+ * [#819512](https://bugs.debian.org/819512) on [breeze](https://tracker.debian.org/breeze) by Dhole: force grep to treat all files as text to avoid locale-related issues.
+ * [#819726](https://bugs.debian.org/819726) on [ckbuilder](https://tracker.debian.org/ckbuilder) by boyska: add support for `SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH`.
+ * [#819767](https://bugs.debian.org/819767) on [libtool](https://tracker.debian.org/libtool) by rain1: removes extra timestamps from the build system, ensure a stable file order when creating the source archive, and replace uses of the `hostname` command with the fixed string "localhost".
+
+tests.reproducible-builds.org
+-----------------------------
+The i386 builders are now testing packages on i386 for reproducibility. It will probably take 4 weeks until everything has been build twice, on this arch. (h01ger)
+
+Package reviews
+---------------
+
+52 [reviews](https://reproducible.debian.net/unstable/amd64/index_notes.html) have been removed, 24 added and 4 updated in the previous week.
+
+Chris Lamb reported 13 new FTBFS.
+
+New issue: [copyright_year_in_comments_generated_by_ckbuilder](https://reproducible.debian.net/issues/unstable/copyright_year_in_comments_generated_by_ckbuilder_issue.html).
+
+Misc.
+-----
+This weeks edition was mostly written by Lunar, with some help by Reiner Herrmann and h01ger.

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