[blog] 01/01: Update draft for week 82.

Sun Nov 20 09:14:27 UTC 2016

This is an automated email from the git hooks/post-receive script.

lamby pushed a commit to branch master
in repository blog.

commit 146f191d25605210a02f268a1bcf392e6245296d
Author: Chris Lamb <lamby at debian.org>
Date:   Sun Nov 20 10:14:10 2016 +0100

    Update draft for week 82.
    
    Signed-off-by: Chris Lamb <lamby at debian.org>
---
 drafts/82.mdwn | 125 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------
 1 file changed, 100 insertions(+), 25 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drafts/82.mdwn b/drafts/82.mdwn
index f10b852..2a21894 100644
--- a/drafts/82.mdwn
+++ b/drafts/82.mdwn
@@ -1,40 +1,115 @@
-The [Mini-DebConf in Cambridge](https://wiki.debian.org/DebianEvents/gb/2016/MiniDebConfCambridge) was fun! chris and h01ger gave a [slides not yet uploaded](status update) ([Video](http://meetings-archive.debian.net/pub/debian-meetings/2016/miniconf_cambridge16/reproducible_builds_status_update.webm)).
+[[!meta title="Reproducible Builds: week 82 in Stretch cycle"]]
 
-Packages
---------
+What happened in the [Reproducible
+Builds](https://wiki.debian.org/ReproducibleBuilds) effort between Sunday November 13 and Saturday November 19 2016:
 
-Ximin worked on glibc reproducibility this week, catching some bugs in
-disorderfs, FUSE, as well as glibc itself
+Media coverage
+--------------
 
-t.r-b.o
+* Chris Lamb and Holger Levsen presented at [MiniDebConf Cambridge](https://wiki.debian.org/DebianEvents/gb/2016/MiniDebConfCambridge). ([Video](http://meetings-archive.debian.net/pub/debian-meetings/2016/miniconf_cambridge16/reproducible_builds_status_update.webm), [Slides](http://people.debian.org/~lamby/2016-11-13-MiniDebConfCambridge)).
 
-Debian:
-	new page: https://tests.reproducible-builds.org/debian/index_bugs.html - thanks to the Q+A session after our talk in cambridge (h01ger)
-	i386:
-		two new i386 builders, build12+16, for >50% increased build performance 
-		we went from 18+17 cores on two 48gb machines to 10+10+9+9 cores on four 36gb ram machines… and from 16 to 24 builder jobs. 
+Elsewhere in Debian
+-------------------
 
-	
+* `dpkg` 1.18.14 has migrated to stretch.
 
-844498 - #disorderfs - disorderfs: using it for building kills the host (with a 686 kernel)...
+* Chris Lamb filed [[!bug 844431]] ("packages should build reproducibly")  against [[!pkg debian-policy]].
 
+* Ximin worked on glibc reproducibility this week, catching some bugs in disorderfs, FUSE, as well as glibc itself
 
-dpkg
-----
-dpkg 1.18.14 moved to stretch \o/
+Documentation update
+--------------------
 
-debrebuild
-----------
-new tool proposed by hw42 and josch, see #774415: "From srebuild sbuild-wrapper to debrebuild", https://anonscm.debian.org/git/reproducible/debrebuild.git and ITP coming soon.
+* Webconverger was added to our list of [partner projects](https://reproducible-builds.org/who/).
 
-debian-policy:
 
-chris filed #844431 "packages should build reproducible"
+Packages reviewed and fixed, and bugs filed
+-------------------------------------------
 
+* [[!bug 844491]] filed against [[!pkg linux]] by Chris Lamb.
+* [[!bug 844992]] filed against [[!pkg perlbrew]] by Chris Lamb.
+* [[!bug 844993]] filed against [[!pkg qsynth]] by Chris Lamb.
+* [[!bug 845034]] filed against [[!pkg initramfs-tools]] by Chris Lamb.
+* [[!bug 845055]] filed against [[!pkg markdown]] by Chris Lamb.
 
-reproducible-builds.org website
--------------------------------
+* [[!bug 844228]] filed against [[!pkg ebook-speaker]] by Daniel Shahaf.
+* [[!bug 844232]] filed against [[!pkg daisy-player]] by Daniel Shahaf.
+* [[!bug 844236]] filed against [[!pkg libhtml-lint-perl]] by Daniel Shahaf.
 
-Webconverger was added to our list of [partner
-projects](https://reproducible-builds.org/who/).
+* [[!bug 844752]] filed against [[!pkg perl]] by Niko Tyni.
 
+* [[!bug 845007]] filed against [[!pkg qsampler]] by Reiner Herrmann.
+* [[!bug 845008]] filed against [[!pkg qmidinet]] by Reiner Herrmann.
+* [[!bug 845010]] filed against [[!pkg qxgedit]] by Reiner Herrmann.
+
+Reviews of unreproducible packages
+----------------------------------
+
+43 package reviews have been added, 4 have been updated and 12 have been removed in this week, adding to our knowledge about [identified issues](https://tests.reproducible-builds.org/debian/index_issues.html).
+
+2 issue types have been updated:
+
+- [captures\_build\_path, captures\_build\_path\_via\_assert](https://anonscm.debian.org/git/reproducible/notes.git/commit/?id=cb6c434)
+- [issue records\_build\_flags](https://anonscm.debian.org/git/reproducible/notes.git/commit/?id=b3ddaca)
+
+4 issue types have been added:
+
+- [timestamps\_in\_documentation\_generated\_by\_asciidoctor](https://anonscm.debian.org/git/reproducible/notes.git/commit/?id=f0c8d20)
+- [randomness\_in\_property\_annotations\_generated\_by\_sphinx](https://anonscm.debian.org/git/reproducible/notes.git/commit/?id=3c75254)
+- [randomness\_in\_browserify\_lite\_output](https://anonscm.debian.org/git/reproducible/notes.git/commit/?id=c4cab7d)
+- [txt2man\_dash\_p](https://anonscm.debian.org/git/reproducible/notes.git/commit/?id=c44d7b8)
+
+Weekly QA work
+--------------
+
+During of reproducibility testing, some FTBFS bugs have been detected and
+reported by:
+
+ - Chris Lamb (26)
+ - Daniel Stender (1)
+ - Filip Pytloun (1)
+ - Lucas Nussbaum (28)
+ - Michael Biebl (1)
+
+strip-nondeterminism development
+--------------------------------
+
+- Chris Lamb:
+  - [t/binaries.t: Don't make tests rely on Debian::Debhelper::Dh\_Lib.](https://anonscm.debian.org/git/reproducible/strip-nondeterminism.git/commit/?id=b9d5b06)
+
+
+disorderfs development
+----------------------
+
+* [[!bug 844498]] ("disorderfs: using it for building kills the host")
+
+debrebuild development
+----------------------
+
+[debrebuild](https://anonscm.debian.org/git/reproducible/debrebuild.git) is new tool proposed by HW42 and josch (see [[!bug 774415]]: "From srebuild sbuild-wrapper to debrebuild").
+
+
+reprotest development
+---------------------
+
+- Ximin Luo:
+  - [Set uname to two explicitly different values](https://anonscm.debian.org/git/reproducible/reprotest.git/commit/?id=f740336)
+  - [Add a --no-diffoscope option. (Closes: #844512)](https://anonscm.debian.org/git/reproducible/reprotest.git/commit/?id=3dc708f)
+  - [Add "auto" presets and --testbed-init](https://anonscm.debian.org/git/reproducible/reprotest.git/commit/?id=6b29511)
+  - [Add --testbed-pre and --testbed-init arguments](https://anonscm.debian.org/git/reproducible/reprotest.git/commit/?id=a1838c4)
+  - [Fix main script so that build commands starting with ENVVAR=val work after append\_command()](https://anonscm.debian.org/git/reproducible/reprotest.git/commit/?id=3feddf4)
+  - Dramatically expand documentation (many commits)
+
+tests.reproducible-builds.org
+-----------------------
+
+* Debian:
+
+  * An [index of our usertagged bugs](https://tests.reproducible-builds.org/debian/index_bugs.html) page was added by Holger after a Q+A session in Cambridge.
+  * There are two new i386 builders, build12+16, for >50% increased build performance 
+  * In addition, we went from 18+17 cores on two 48GB machines to 10+10+9+9 cores on four 36GB ram machines… and from 16 to 24 builder jobs. 
+
+Misc.
+-----
+
+This week's edition was written by Chris Lamb, Holger Levsen, Ximin Luo and reviewed by a bunch of Reproducible Builds folks on IRC.

-- 
Alioth's /usr/local/bin/git-commit-notice on /srv/git.debian.org/git/reproducible/blog.git

