[Reproducible-commits] [blog] 01/02: 63: more context on the dpkg upload(s)

[Mattia Rizzolo]

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commit 48323a457c10f4e8d7fa22f87ac2e82301d0b105
Author: Mattia Rizzolo <mattia at debian.org>
Date:   Mon Jul 4 17:50:46 2016 +0000

    63: more context on the dpkg upload(s)
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 drafts/63.mdwn | 11 ++++++++---
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drafts/63.mdwn b/drafts/63.mdwn
index fa18174..a8f161e 100644
--- a/drafts/63.mdwn
+++ b/drafts/63.mdwn
@@ -15,8 +15,8 @@ Documentation update
 Toolchain fixes
 ---------------
 
-- Guillem Jover uploaded [[!pkg dpkg]]/1.18.8, containing a lot of changes
-  relevant for us:
+- Guillem Jover uploaded [[!pkg dpkg]]/1.18.8 to unstable, containing a lot of
+  changes relevant for us:
   + Use new GNU tar `--clamp-mtime` option in dpkg-deb(1) to make sure no file in
     binary packages has an mtime later than the given time.  Closes: [[!bug 759886]]
   + Use the same timestamp for the ar container as for tarball mtime clamping
@@ -29,8 +29,13 @@ Toolchain fixes
   + Export `SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH` from pkg-info.mk makefile snippet.  Closes: [[!bug 824572]]
   + Add new Timestamp field to Dpkg::Changelog output, which ends up on
     dpkg-parsechangelog(1)'s output.
+
   This is a huge upload for us, so thank you Guillem for doing it and helping
-  reproducible builds becoming something real.
+  reproducible builds becoming something real.<br />
+  Not even 12 hours later Guillem did another upload (versioned as 1.18.9) to
+  address an important regression (which prevented nearly everything to be built).<br />
+  Mattia Rizzolo quickly rebased our patched copy, happily dropping most of the
+  patches.
 
 With this dpkg upload there can be real reproducible packages in the wild; we
 still have a couple of local patches (to normalize the control.tar member of the

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