[blog] 01/01: 130: Initial draft.

Chris Lamb chris at chris-lamb.co.uk
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Author: Chris Lamb <lamby at debian.org>
Date:   Sun Oct 22 10:28:59 2017 -0400

    130: Initial draft.
---
 drafts/130.mdwn | 130 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------
 1 file changed, 117 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drafts/130.mdwn b/drafts/130.mdwn
index 59e89ec..45ab9b4 100644
--- a/drafts/130.mdwn
+++ b/drafts/130.mdwn
@@ -1,14 +1,50 @@
-- #870221 in dpkg closed
+[[!meta title="Reproducible Builds: Weekly report #130"]]
 
-Past and upcoming events
-------------------------
+Here's what happened in the [Reproducible Builds](https://reproducible-builds.org) effort between Sunday October 15 and Saturday October 21 2017:
 
-- On Tuesday 24th October, Chris Lamb will present at the [All Things Open 2017](https://allthingsopen.org) in Raleigh, NC, USA on reproducible builds.
+* The [Tails](tails.boum.org) project published a [report on how they made their ISO images reproducible](https://lists.reproducible-builds.org/pipermail/rb-general/2017-October/000656.html).
 
-Reproducible work in other projects
------------------------------------
+* [[!pkg dpkg]] 1.19.0 was uploaded, including support for:
 
-- https://lists.reproducible-builds.org/pipermail/rb-general/2017-October/000656.html (Tails)
+    * Ordering the "unused substitution" warnings to prevent superfluous differences between logs of package builds on the Reproducible Builds test framework. ([[!bug 870221]])
+
+    * A new `Build-Kernel-Version field in `.buildinfo` files that can be generated with a new `dpkg-genbuildinfo --always-include-kernel` option. ([[!bug #873937]])
+
+- On Saturday 21st October, [Holger Levsen presented](https://cfp.all-systems-go.io/en/ASG2017/public/events/117) at [All Systems Go!](https://all-systems-go.io/) in Berlin, Germany on
+  reproducible builds.
+
+Upcoming events
+---------------
+
+- On Tuesday 24th October, Chris Lamb will present at the [All Things Open 2017](https://allthingsopen.org) in Raleigh, NC, USA.
+
+- On Wednesday 25th October, [Holger Levsen will
+  present](https://osseu17.sched.com/event/BxJs/reproducible-builds-we-made-lots-of-progress-in-many-places-but-were-still-far-from-our-goals-of-changing-the-software-world-holger-levsen)
+  at the [Open Source Summit Europe](https://osseu17.sched.com) in Prague,
+  Czech Republic on reproducible builds.
+
+- On Saturday 28th October, Chris Lamb will present at [freenode.live](https://freenode.live) in Bristol, UK.
+
+- From October 31st - November 2nd we will be holding the
+  [3rd Reproducible Builds summit](https://reproducible-builds.org/events/berlin2017/)
+  in Berlin. If you are working in the field of reproducible builds, you should totally be
+  there. Please contact us if you have any questions and see our [public invitation mail](https://lists.reproducible-builds.org/pipermail/rb-general/2017-October/000653.html).
+
+Packages reviewed and fixed, and bugs filed
+-------------------------------------------
+
+* Adrian Bunk:
+    * [[!bug 878883]] filed against [[!pkg stoken]].
+    * [[!bug 878896]] filed against [[!pkg liquidsoap]].
+    * [[!bug 878980]] filed against [[!pkg belenios]].
+    * [[!bug 879042]] filed against [[!pkg tuxpaint-config]].
+    * [[!bug 879223]] filed against [[!pkg websockify]].
+* Chris Lamb:
+    * [[!bug 878707]] filed against [[!pkg python-amqp]].
+    * [[!bug 878708]] filed against [[!pkg geographiclib]].
+    * [[!bug 879169]] filed against [[!pkg live-build]].
+* Gilles Filippini:
+    * [[!bug 878818]] filed against [[!pkg ovito]].
 
 Accepted repoducibility NMUs in Debian
 ---------------------------------------
@@ -19,10 +55,78 @@ Accepted repoducibility NMUs in Debian
   * [[!pkg rest2web]] ([[!bug 833438]])
 
 
-development
------------
-dpkg 1.19.0 was uploaded, including this:
-   * Add support for a new Build-Kernel-Version field in .buildinfo files,
-     that can be emitted with a new dpkg-genbuildinfo --always-include-kernel
-     option. Closes: #873937
+Reviews of unreproducible packages
+----------------------------------
+
+41 package reviews have been added, 119 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).
+
+2 issue types were removed as they were fixed:
+
+- [too\_much\_input\_for\_diff](https://anonscm.debian.org/git/reproducible/notes.git/commit/?id=40fab9fb)
+- [docbook\_to\_man\_one\_byte\_delta](https://anonscm.debian.org/git/reproducible/notes.git/commit/?id=e3e11cf8)
+
+Weekly QA work
+--------------
+
+During our reproducibility testing, FTBFS bugs have been detected and reported by:
+
+ - "Aaron M. Ucko" (1)
+ - Adrian Bunk (49)
+ - Anthony DeRobertis (1)
+ - Daniel Schepler (1)
+ - Gilles Filippini (1)
+ - James Cowgill (1)
+ - Matthias Klose (1)
+ - Matthias Klumpp (1)
+ - Nobuhiro Iwamatsu (1)
+
+
+diffoscope development
+----------------------
+
+- Ximin Luo:
+    - [Tentative support for for parallel diffs](https://anonscm.debian.org/git/reproducible/diffoscope.git/commit/?id=96ba333)
+
+
+strip-nondeterminism development
+--------------------------------
+
+Version [0.039-1](https://tracker.debian.org/news/880419) was uploaded to unstable by Chris Lamb.
+It included [contributions](https://anonscm.debian.org/git/reproducible/strip-nondeterminism.git/log/?h=debian/0.039-1)
+already covered by posts of the previous weeks, including:
+
+- Chris Lamb:
+   - Clojure considers the `.class` file to be stale if it shares the same
+     timestamp of the `.clj`. We thus adjust the timestamps of the `.clj` to always
+     be younger. ([[!bug 877418]])
+   * `dh_strip_nondeterminism`: Log which handler processed a file.
+     ([[!bug 876140]])
+   * `bin/strip-nondeterminism`: Print a warning in `--verbose` mode if no
+     canonical time specified.
+   * Use HTTPS URI in `debian/watch`.
+
+
+reprotest development
+---------------------
+
+- Ximin Luo:
+    - [Hopefully fix the autopkgtest tests](https://anonscm.debian.org/git/reproducible/reprotest.git/commit/?id=f874535)
+
+
+Website updates
+---------------
+
+- Holger Levsen:
+    - Berlin 2017:
+        - [add Qubes OS to participating projects](https://anonscm.debian.org/git/reproducible/reproducible-website.git/commit/?id=e94e516)
+        - [Add NetBSD and EdgeBSD to participating projects](https://anonscm.debian.org/git/reproducible/reproducible-website.git/commit/?id=8dc1095)
+        - [Add repeatr.io to participating projects](https://anonscm.debian.org/git/reproducible/reproducible-website.git/commit/?id=73c5437)
+        - [Add disclaimer why only so few projects are listed](https://anonscm.debian.org/git/reproducible/reproducible-website.git/commit/?id=84e461f)
+        - [Add link to Google maps and name the 2nd next subway station on a different line](https://anonscm.debian.org/git/reproducible/reproducible-website.git/commit/?id=f7adff8)
+        - [Add first 4 participating projects](https://anonscm.debian.org/git/reproducible/reproducible-website.git/commit/?id=769c367)
+
+Misc.
+-----
 
+This week's edition was written by Chris Lamb, Holger Levsen & reviewed by a bunch of Reproducible Builds folks on IRC & the mailing lists.

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