[blog] 01/01: 82: add more of what I did

[Ximin Luo]

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commit e4ac5d74df29483342d83c3502945b5cc39ac1ab
Author: Ximin Luo <infinity0 at debian.org>
Date:   Sun Nov 20 12:42:11 2016 +0100

    82: add more of what I did
---
 drafts/82.mdwn | 26 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 26 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drafts/82.mdwn b/drafts/82.mdwn
index 395dcb4..765aff5 100644
--- a/drafts/82.mdwn
+++ b/drafts/82.mdwn
@@ -79,15 +79,40 @@ disorderfs development
 
 * [[!bug 844498]] ("disorderfs: using it for building kills the host")
 
+
 debrebuild development
 ----------------------
 
 debrebuild is new tool proposed by HW42 and josch (see [[!bug 774415]]: "From srebuild sbuild-wrapper to debrebuild").
 
 
+debrepatch development
+----------------------
+
+Ximin Luo worked on making
+[debpatch](https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/reproducible/debrepatch.git/tree/debpatch)
+more "production-ready" and will soon try to have it included in devscripts.
+The plan is then to set up jobs to automatically apply old reproducibility
+patches to newer versions of packages, and notify the right people if they
+don't apply and/or no longer make the package reproducible.
+
+
 reprotest development
 ---------------------
 
+Ximin Luo significantly improved reprotest, adding presets and auto-detection
+of which preset to use. Now, one can run e.g. `reprotest auto .` or `reprotest
+auto $pkg_$ver.dsc` instead of the long command lines that were needed before.
+
+He also made it easier to set up build dependencies inside the virtual server,
+and made it possible to specify pre-build dependencies that reprotest itself
+needs to set up the variations. Previously one had to manually edit the virtual
+server to do that, which was not very usable to humans without an in-depth
+knowledge of the building process.
+
+These changes will be tested some more and then released in the near future as
+`reprotest 0.4`.
+
 - 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)
@@ -96,6 +121,7 @@ reprotest development
   - [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
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