[blog] 01/01: Update draft for 74.

Chris Lamb chris at chris-lamb.co.uk
Mon Sep 26 17:15:07 UTC 2016


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Author: Chris Lamb <lamby at debian.org>
Date:   Mon Sep 26 19:14:56 2016 +0200

    Update draft for 74.
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 drafts/74.mdwn | 37 +++++++++++++++++++------------------
 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drafts/74.mdwn b/drafts/74.mdwn
index 5708d83..59998ef 100644
--- a/drafts/74.mdwn
+++ b/drafts/74.mdwn
@@ -6,33 +6,34 @@ Builds](https://wiki.debian.org/ReproducibleBuilds) effort between Sunday Septem
 Outreachy
 ---------
 
-[We participate](https://wiki.debian.org/Outreachy/Round13/Projects/ReproducibleBuildsOfDebian) in [Outreachy Round 13] and look forward for new enthusiastic applications to contribute to reproducible builds. We're offering four different areas to work on:
+We intend to participate in in [Outreachy Round 13](https://wiki.debian.org/Outreachy/Round13/Projects/ReproducibleBuildsOfDebian) and look forward for new enthusiastic applications to contribute to reproducible builds. We're offering four different areas to work on:
 
 - Improve test and debugging tools.
 - Improving reproducibility of Debian packages.
 - Improving Debian infrastructure.
-- Help collaboration accross distributions.
+- Help collaboration across distributions.
 
-Reproducible Builds World Summit Two
+Reproducible Builds World summit Two
 ------------------------------------
 
-We are planning to have a similar event like [Athens 2015](https://reproducible-builds.org/events/athens2015/) and expect to finally have more information soon. If you haven't been contacted yet but would like to attend, please contact [h01ger](holger at layer-acht.org).
+We are planning e a similar event to our [Athens 2015 summit](https://reproducible-builds.org/events/athens2015/) and expect to reveal more information soon. If you haven't been contacted yet but would like to attend, please contact [h01ger](holger at layer-acht.org).
 
 Toolchain development and fixes
 -------------------------------
 
 Mattia uploaded [[!pkg dpkg]]/1.18.10.0~reproducible1 to our [experimental repository](https://wiki.debian.org/ReproducibleBuilds/ExperimentalToolchain).
-He covered in details the reason for the upload and the changes in
-[a mailing list post](https://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/reproducible-builds/Week-of-Mon-20160919/007119.html).
-
-The most important change is the incorporation of the improvements Guillem Jover
-(dpkg maintainer) did to the .buildinfo generator.  This is also in the hope to
-somehow speed up the merge in proper dpkg.<br />
-One of the most relevant change from before is that now .buildinfo generated from
-binary-only builds will not include anymore the hash of the .dsc file in Checksums-Sha256
+and [covered the details for the upload](https://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/reproducible-builds/Week-of-Mon-20160919/007119.html) in a mailing list post.
+
+The most important change is the incorporation of improvements made by Guillem Jover
+(dpkg maintainer) to the .buildinfo generator. This is also in the hope that it will
+speed up the merge in the upstream.
+
+One of the other relevant changes from before is that .buildinfo files generated from
+binary-only builds will no longer include the hash of the .dsc file in Checksums-Sha256
 as documented in the [specification](https://wiki.debian.org/ReproducibleBuilds/BuildinfoSpecification#buildinfo_field_descriptions).
-Even if it is considered important to include a checksum of the source package
-in .buildinfo, storing it that way breaks other assumptions (like that
+
+Even if it was considered important to include a checksum of the source package
+in .buildinfo, storing it that way breaks other assumptions (eg. that
 Checksums-Sha256 contains only files part of that are part of a single upload,
 wheras the .dsc might not be part of that upload), thus we look forward for
 another solution to store the source checksum in .buildinfo.
@@ -48,7 +49,7 @@ Bugs filed
 Reviews of unreproducible packages
 ----------------------------------
 
-250 package reviews have been added (!), 4 have been updated and 4 have been removed in this week,
+250 package reviews have been added, 4 have been updated and 4 have been removed in this week,
 adding to our knowledge about [identified issues](https://tests.reproducible-builds.org/debian/index_issues.html).
 
 4 issue types have been added:
@@ -75,7 +76,7 @@ FTBFS bugs have been reported by:
 Documentation updates
 ---------------------
 
-h01ger created a new Jenkins job so that every commit pushed to the [master branch for the website](https://git.debian.org/git/reproducible/reproducible-website.git) will update [reproducible-builds.org](https://reproducible-builds.org/)
+h01ger created a new Jenkins job so that every commit pushed to the [master branch for the website](https://git.debian.org/git/reproducible/reproducible-website.git) will update [reproducible-builds.org](https://reproducible-builds.org/).
 
 
 diffoscope development
@@ -130,10 +131,10 @@ reprotest development
 tests.reproducible-builds.org
 -----------------------------
 
-- A full rebuild of all packages in unstable (in all tested archs) with the build path variations has been completed, with the result that we are down to ~75% reproducible packages in unstable now. (For testing/stretch, where we don't vary the build path, we are still at ~90%.) IRC notifications for unstable have been enabled again. (Holger)
+- The full rebuild of all packages in unstable (for all tested archs) with the new build path variation has been completed. This has had the result that we are down to ~75% reproducible packages in unstable now. In comparison, for testing (where we don't vary the build path) we are still at ~90%. IRC notifications for unstable have been enabled again. (Holger)
 - Make the notes job robust about bad data (see [[!bug 833695]] and [[!bug 833738]]). (Holger)
 - Setup profitbricks-build7 running stretch as testing reproducible builds of F-Droid need to use a newer version of vagrant in order to support running vagrant VMs with kvm on kvm. (Holger)
-- The misbehaving 'opi2a' armhf node has been replaced with a Jetson-TK1 board kindly donated by NVidia. (running a nvidia tegra-k1 (cortex-a15) quad-core board). (vagrant and Holger)
+- The misbehaving 'opi2a' armhf node has been replaced with a Jetson-TK1 board kindly donated by NVidia. This machine is using an NVIDIA tegra-k1 (cortex-a15) quad-core board. (vagrant and Holger)
 
 Misc.
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