• Bug#970278: smartlist: please make the build reproducible

    From Santiago Vila@21:1/5 to All on Thu Aug 1 19:10:01 2024
    El 29/7/24 a las 15:45, Chris Lamb escribiĆ³:
    My reproducibility testing framework on my local machine is crusty
    enough that testing an arbitrary Git repo is actually quite difficult.
    I should probably work on this sometime, but there hasn't been enough
    call for me to fix that.

    Could you simply go ahead with the upload of smartlist to unstable?
    I'll then very happily look back at this bug and make a better
    determination on all the questions to mention below.

    Ok, I went ahead and did the upload, since it fixes a FTBFS bug
    and don't want the autoremoval to happen.

    So I change my request to just "please take a look when you can".

    In fact, I tried to reproduce this myself yesterday in an arm64 machine
    using an armhf chroot, but I did not manage to make the reprotest tool
    to work, and I ended up removing the machine (ok, I agree this is vague
    and should have asked for help somewhere quoting the exact error message...).

    I have identified this commit in the upstream git which has a potential to fix the issue, because it affects lines of code which are close to the ones reported by diffoscope output.

    https://github.com/BuGlessRB/procmail/commit/ea5c916fd540b57ba33920f479e6701abad1d88e

    But I don't think I will be able to test this theory without some help
    to reproduce the problem, everything I need is to know what
    variable variation is the one making the build to be different.

    Thanks.

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  • From Chris Lamb@21:1/5 to Santiago Vila on Thu Aug 1 19:10:02 2024
    Santiago Vila wrote:

    Ok, I went ahead and did the upload, since it fixes a FTBFS bug and
    don't want the autoremoval to happen.

    Of course: totally agreed with prioritising this.

    I don't think I will be able to test this theory without some help
    to reproduce the problem, everything I need is to know what variable variation is the one making the build to be different.

    ACK this. I will look at this new version once it's picked up by our
    automated testing framework.


    Regards,

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