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Author: Chris Lamb <lamby at debian.org>
Date:   Sun Dec 18 09:45:59 2016 +0000

    Add initial draft for week 86.
    
    Signed-off-by: Chris Lamb <lamby at debian.org>
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-http://arstechnica.co.uk/information-technology/2016/12/how-to-make-linux-more-trustworthy/
+[[!meta title="Reproducible Builds: week 86 in Stretch cycle"]]
 
-summit
-https://gnu.org/software/guix/news/reproducible-build-summit-2nd-edition.html
+What happened in the [Reproducible Builds](https://wiki.debian.org/ReproducibleBuilds) effort between Sunday December 11 and Saturday December 17 2016:
 
-gettext
+Reproducible builds world summit
+--------------------------------
 
-bootstrappy
+The [2nd Reproducible Builds World Summit](https://reproducible-builds.org/events/berlin2016/) was held in Berlin, Germany on December 13th-15th. The event was a great success with enthusiastic participation from an extremely diverse number of projects.
 
-freebsd https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=310112
+Whilst there is an in-depth report forthcoming, the [Guix project](https://gnu.org/software/guix/news/reproducible-build-summit-2nd-edition.html) have released their own report.
 
-https://github.com/bsd-hacker/freebsd/commit/ece1d894c465b9b36bef2c88801b5a110123785a Add WITH_REPRODUCIBLE_BUILD src.conf(5) knob to disable kernel metadata 
+(FIXME)
 
-netbsdsrc: christos: src: http://build.sh: Add -P for reproducible builds based on the latest cvs timestamp. — https://twitter.com/netbsdsrc/status/810310270027530240
+Media coverage
+--------------
 
+* "[How to make Linux more trustworthy](http://arstechnica.co.uk/information-technology/2016/12/how-to-make-linux-more-trustworthy/)"
 
-tails announcement/report?
 
-https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/news/reproducible-builds-a-means-to-an-end.html ?
+Reproducible work in other projects
+-----------------------------------
 
-ducible? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13112436
+* Guix: [Reproducible builds: a means to an end](https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/news/reproducible-builds-a-means-to-an-end.html).
 
+* [Ducible](https://github.com/jasonwhite/ducible), a tool to make Windows builds reproducible.
 
+* FreeBSD now has [an option to eliminate kernel build metadata](https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=310112) (Ed Maste).
+
+* FIXME: gettext
+
+Documentation update
+--------------------
+
+A large number of revisions were made to the website during the summit, including re-structuring existing content and creating a concrete plan to move the wiki content to the website:
+
+- Ulrike Uhlig:
+  - [Add another FreeBSD talk and remove a trailing comma](https://anonscm.debian.org/git/reproducible/reproducible-website.git/commit/?id=f64a8d3)
+  - [Add talk about RB in FreeBSD](https://anonscm.debian.org/git/reproducible/reproducible-website.git/commit/?id=03ddcf7)
+  - [Delete talk which was in there twice. Reorder talks by date.](https://anonscm.debian.org/git/reproducible/reproducible-website.git/commit/?id=708811c)
+  - [Move talks to resources](https://anonscm.debian.org/git/reproducible/reproducible-website.git/commit/?id=15c9889)
+  - [Create separate page for talks and resources.](https://anonscm.debian.org/git/reproducible/reproducible-website.git/commit/?id=7bc0ae3)
+  - [Replace unrendered Unicode by it's HTML version](https://anonscm.debian.org/git/reproducible/reproducible-website.git/commit/?id=72f595f)
+  - [Add FreeBSD contact information](https://anonscm.debian.org/git/reproducible/reproducible-website.git/commit/?id=93cb37b)
+  - [Add contact to Tails project](https://anonscm.debian.org/git/reproducible/reproducible-website.git/commit/?id=08993fe)
+- Clemens Lang:
+  - [docs/buy\_in: Document improved dev speed](https://anonscm.debian.org/git/reproducible/reproducible-website.git/commit/?id=f06e6c5)
+  - [docs/buy\_in: Document easier build sys refactoring](https://anonscm.debian.org/git/reproducible/reproducible-website.git/commit/?id=5f29917)
+  - [docs/buy\_in: Document binary diff advantages](https://anonscm.debian.org/git/reproducible/reproducible-website.git/commit/?id=f196345)
+  - [Berlin event news: Use relative URLs](https://anonscm.debian.org/git/reproducible/reproducible-website.git/commit/?id=2957b9d)
+  - [docs/buy\_in: Document QA advantages](https://anonscm.debian.org/git/reproducible/reproducible-website.git/commit/?id=b3abbd5)
+- Holger Levsen:
+  - [Add group photo](https://anonscm.debian.org/git/reproducible/reproducible-website.git/commit/?id=baf6fa8)
+- Chris Lamb:
+  - [Add trydiffoscope to tools.](https://anonscm.debian.org/git/reproducible/reproducible-website.git/commit/?id=a3787fd)
+  - [Add reprotest to tools.](https://anonscm.debian.org/git/reproducible/reproducible-website.git/commit/?id=690fbd5)
+  - [Tidy the spacing on the mobile navigation select dropdown](https://anonscm.debian.org/git/reproducible/reproducible-website.git/commit/?id=5e28337)
+  - [Hide some components on mobiile browsers](https://anonscm.debian.org/git/reproducible/reproducible-website.git/commit/?id=f3aa172)
+  - [Avoid an unsightly "widow" word in the title page](https://anonscm.debian.org/git/reproducible/reproducible-website.git/commit/?id=063bd55)
+  - [Tidy CSS layout of talks.](https://anonscm.debian.org/git/reproducible/reproducible-website.git/commit/?id=e1c24ca)
+  - [Add some talks.](https://anonscm.debian.org/git/reproducible/reproducible-website.git/commit/?id=a689b57)
+  - [Remove extra underline before "ReproBuilds" twitter link in footer.](https://anonscm.debian.org/git/reproducible/reproducible-website.git/commit/?id=688d3c7)
+- Ludovic Courtès:
+  - [Add links for Guix.](https://anonscm.debian.org/git/reproducible/reproducible-website.git/commit/?id=68dd997)
+- Mattia Rizzolo:
+  - [Add contact information for Debian](https://anonscm.debian.org/git/reproducible/reproducible-website.git/commit/?id=85355e8)
+  - [use mailto: for linking FreeBSD mail](https://anonscm.debian.org/git/reproducible/reproducible-website.git/commit/?id=2e4ecba)
+
+
+Elsewhere in Debian
+------------------
+
+* Chris Lamb submitted a [patch for ``dak`` to preserve ``.buildinfo`` files](https://lists.debian.org/debian-dak/2016/12/msg00011.html) on the local ftp-master filesystem. This is a temporary measure to prevent some "historical" data loss; the files are currently being silently discarded.
+
+
+Packages reviewed and fixed, and bugs filed
+-------------------------------------------
+
+Chris Lamb:
+
+* [[!bug 847768]] filed against [[!pkg hoichess]].
+* [[!bug 848136]] filed against [[!pkg python-setuptools]].
+
+Daniel Shahaf:
+
+* [[!bug 848297]] filed against [[!pkg gst-plugins-bad1.0]].
+
+Reiner Herrmann:
+
+* [[!bug 848280]] filed against [[!pkg qtltools]].
+* [[!bug 848292]] filed against [[!pkg fastqtl]].
+* [[!bug 848295]] filed against [[!pkg openni-sensor-primesense]].
+
+
+Reviews of unreproducible packages
+----------------------------------
+
+9 package reviews have been added, 19 have been updated and 17 have been removed in this week,
+adding to our knowledge about [identified issues](https://tests.reproducible-builds.org/debian/index_issues.html).
+
+3 issue types have been added:
+
+- [python\_setuptools\_install\_files\_txt toolchain issue](https://anonscm.debian.org/git/reproducible/notes.git/commit/?id=b86342d9)
+- [disorderfs\_sensitive](https://anonscm.debian.org/git/reproducible/notes.git/commit/?id=47c5c123)
+- [translations\_missing\_in\_desktop\_files](https://anonscm.debian.org/git/reproducible/notes.git/commit/?id=1b70b5a0)
+
+One issue type was updated:
+
+- [Add fix for randomness\_in\_python\_setuptools\_install\_files\_txt toolchain issue.](https://anonscm.debian.org/git/reproducible/notes.git/commit/?id=2362e143)
+
+Weekly QA work
+--------------
+
+During our reproducibility testing, some FTBFS bugs have been detected and
+reported by:
+
+ - Chris Lamb (9)
+
+diffoscope development
+----------------------
+
+
+- Brett Smith:
+  - [Ensure set\_locale fixture runs before all tests.](https://anonscm.debian.org/git/reproducible/diffoscope.git/commit/?id=0202e7f)
+  - [set\_locale should call tzset. (Closes: #848249)](https://anonscm.debian.org/git/reproducible/diffoscope.git/commit/?id=a828cb7)
+- Chris Lamb:
+  - [Improve documentation of new tests/conftest.py file.](https://anonscm.debian.org/git/reproducible/diffoscope.git/commit/?id=f4fdf12)
+- Mattia Rizzolo:
+  - [presenters/html: namespace the diffoscope CSS class](https://anonscm.debian.org/git/reproducible/diffoscope.git/commit/?id=d9b03ac)
+  - [debian/control: Add trailing comma](https://anonscm.debian.org/git/reproducible/diffoscope.git/commit/?id=bfa3cf7)
+- Reiner Herrmann:
+  - [Improved support for Android apk files](https://anonscm.debian.org/git/reproducible/diffoscope.git/commit/?id=3e74866)
+  - [Fix wording in comment](https://anonscm.debian.org/git/reproducible/diffoscope.git/commit/?id=9d9fbd2)
+- Baptiste Daroussin:
+  - [Improve portability by not relying on /dev/fd](https://anonscm.debian.org/git/reproducible/diffoscope.git/commit/?id=fec9e97)
+  - [comparators/directory: add compatibily with FreeBSD's getfacl](https://anonscm.debian.org/git/reproducible/diffoscope.git/commit/?id=6812c22)
+
+reprotest development
+---------------------
+
+- Chris Lamb:
+  - [Use "generated binaries" over "produced binaries"; we use this elsewhere.](https://anonscm.debian.org/git/reproducible/reprotest.git/commit/?id=1b9e515)
+
+
+trydiffoscope development
+-------------------------
+
+- trydiffoscope was split from the main diffoscope repository by Chris Lamb so that the two projects can be released independently and so that trydiffoscope can more easily be available on PyPI. It also simplifies the diffoscope packaging.
+
+- trydiffoscope 64 was uploaded to unstable by Chris Lamb.
+
+
+tests.reproducible-builds.org
+-----------------------------
+
+FIXME
+
+Misc.
+-----
+
+This week's edition was written by Chris Lamb and reviewed by a bunch of Reproducible Builds folks on IRC.

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