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Author: Chris Lamb <lamby at debian.org>
Date:   Sun Sep 24 09:09:19 2017 +0100

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+[[!meta title="Reproducible Builds: Weekly report #126"]]
+
+Here's what happened in the [Reproducible Builds](https://reproducible-builds.org) effort between Sunday September 17th and Saturday September 23rd 2017:
+
+Media coverage
+--------------
+
+- Christos Zoulas gave a talk entitled *Reproducible builds on NetBSD* at [EuroBSDCon 2017](https://2017.eurobsdcon.org/talk-speakers/)
+
+Reproducible work in other packages
+-----------------------------------
+
+- Paul Eggert [reported that TZ=UTC is not a portable setting for the TZ environment variable](http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/reproducible-builds/Week-of-Mon-20170918/009289.html)
+
+Packages reviewed and fixed, and bugs filed
+-------------------------------------------
+
+* Adrian Bunk:
+  * [[!bug 876615]] filed against [[!pkg librsvg]].
+
+
+Reviews of unreproducible packages
+----------------------------------
+
+1 package reviews were added, 49 have been updated and 54 have been removed in this week,
+adding to our knowledge about [identified issues](https://tests.reproducible-builds.org/debian/index_issues.html).
+
+One issue type was updated:
+
+- [gtk\_doc\_api\_index\_full](https://anonscm.debian.org/git/reproducible/notes.git/commit/?id=2f1ecb12) (fixed upstream: [[!bug 779090]])
+
+Weekly QA work
+--------------
+
+During our reproducibility testing, FTBFS bugs have been detected and reported by:
+
+ - Adrian Bunk (56)
+ - Bas Couwenberg (1)
+ - Helmut Grohne (1)
+ - Nobuhiro Iwamatsu (2)
+
+
+diffoscope development
+----------------------
+
+Version 87 was uploaded to unstable by Mattia Rizzolo. It included [contributions](https://anonscm.debian.org/git/reproducible/diffoscope.git/log/?h=debian/87) from:
+
+- Ximin Luo:
+    - ``comparators/*``:
+        - [Add a test for fallback\_recognizes and improve the behaviour](https://anonscm.debian.org/git/reproducible/diffoscope.git/commit/?id=27be3f4)
+        - [Add a fallback\_recognizes to work around file(1) #876316. (Closes: #875282)](https://anonscm.debian.org/git/reproducible/diffoscope.git/commit/?id=7b8b9ae)
+        - [If --force-details then don't skip files with identical md5sums either](https://anonscm.debian.org/git/reproducible/diffoscope.git/commit/?id=9b87bd4)
+        - [Add a --force-details flag for debugging](https://anonscm.debian.org/git/reproducible/diffoscope.git/commit/?id=8ab261e)
+    - ``presenters.html``:
+        - [Restore the previous more-detailed comment](https://anonscm.debian.org/git/reproducible/diffoscope.git/commit/?id=21f931a)
+        - [Don't show pointer-cursor when jQuery is disabled](https://anonscm.debian.org/git/reproducible/diffoscope.git/commit/?id=48ba0aa)
+        - [Prune all descendants properly (Closes: #875281)](https://anonscm.debian.org/git/reproducible/diffoscope.git/commit/?id=ccd926f)
+    - ``difference.py``:
+        - [Also copy self.\_comment properly, compare self.\_visuals in equals()](https://anonscm.debian.org/git/reproducible/diffoscope.git/commit/?id=f5c9986)
+        - [In fmap/map\_lines, don't forget about self.\_visuals](https://anonscm.debian.org/git/reproducible/diffoscope.git/commit/?id=3a8ab73)
+        - [use diff\_split\_lines everywhere](https://anonscm.debian.org/git/reproducible/diffoscope.git/commit/?id=a9bae3a)
+    - tests:
+        - [Add case for #875281](https://anonscm.debian.org/git/reproducible/diffoscope.git/commit/?id=4cbca96)
+        - [Make test\_md5sums less brittle](https://anonscm.debian.org/git/reproducible/diffoscope.git/commit/?id=0fb6d8a)
+        - [Update test\_deb for new string](https://anonscm.debian.org/git/reproducible/diffoscope.git/commit/?id=f5e9215)
+    - [readers: Convert bytes to str in the right place](https://anonscm.debian.org/git/reproducible/diffoscope.git/commit/?id=8c92a26)
+    - [config: Force-set a value if it must be < another, and it was not set on purpose (Closes: #875451)](https://anonscm.debian.org/git/reproducible/diffoscope.git/commit/?id=510162b)
+    - [Bump minimum Python version to 3.5 as we use syntax introduced by PEP 448](https://anonscm.debian.org/git/reproducible/diffoscope.git/commit/?id=ad8ab31)
+- Chris Lamb:
+    - [Print a debugging message if we are reading diff from stdin.](https://anonscm.debian.org/git/reproducible/diffoscope.git/commit/?id=509509e)
+    - [Compare types with identity not equality.](https://anonscm.debian.org/git/reproducible/diffoscope.git/commit/?id=98de493)
+    - [diffoscope.presenters.html: Use logging.py's lazy argument interpolation.](https://anonscm.debian.org/git/reproducible/diffoscope.git/commit/?id=6e42152)
+    - [debian/control: Bump Standards-Version to 4.1.0.](https://anonscm.debian.org/git/reproducible/diffoscope.git/commit/?id=c561ae5)
+- Mattia Rizzolo:
+    - [debian/rules: Place "before" commands before "after" commands.](https://anonscm.debian.org/git/reproducible/diffoscope.git/commit/?id=e07585a)
+
+
+strip-nondeterminism development
+--------------------------------
+
+- Chris Lamb:
+  - [dh\_strip\_nondeterminism: Log which handler procesed a file. (Closes: #876140)](https://anonscm.debian.org/git/reproducible/strip-nondeterminism.git/commit/?id=aa9c311)
+  - [Bump Standards-Version to 4.1.0.](https://anonscm.debian.org/git/reproducible/strip-nondeterminism.git/commit/?id=d17ee5b)
+
+
+reprotest development
+---------------------
+
+Version 0.7 was uploaded to unstable by Ximin Luo:
+
+- Ximin Luo:
+  - [Push use of UNIX return codes to the edges of the program](https://anonscm.debian.org/git/reproducible/reprotest.git/commit/?id=1f93944)
+  - [Add a --auto-build option to determine which variations cause unreproducibility](https://anonscm.debian.org/git/reproducible/reprotest.git/commit/?id=fd4a053)
+  - [Allow umask and user\_group to both vary at the same time](https://anonscm.debian.org/git/reproducible/reprotest.git/commit/?id=27c1391)
+  - [Generate build names in main instead of build, guard against dupes](https://anonscm.debian.org/git/reproducible/reprotest.git/commit/?id=5ad0200)
+  - [Pull traceback-printing stuff out of the core code](https://anonscm.debian.org/git/reproducible/reprotest.git/commit/?id=8b03fcf)
+  - [More refactoring, make check() contain only logic that would be changed in an auto-detector](https://anonscm.debian.org/git/reproducible/reprotest.git/commit/?id=374c580)
+  - [Split check() into a coroutine producer and consumer, prepares auto-detection](https://anonscm.debian.org/git/reproducible/reprotest.git/commit/?id=f4b5e84)
+
+
+tests.reproducible-builds.org
+-----------------------------
+
+FIXME
+
+Misc.
+-----
+
+This week's edition was written by Chris Lamb & reviewed by a bunch of Reproducible Builds folks on IRC & the mailing lists.

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