On Tue, 15 Aug 2017, 11:02 p.m. Adrian Bunk <b...@debian.org> wrote: > Tracker: > https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/hsqldb1.8.0 > "Does not build reproducibly during testing" >
And indeed it's not reproducible according to policy: it's storing the build user at the very least. > > Let's look at the mdds package, that has red unreproducible entries in > the maintainer dashboard: > > https://tests.reproducible-builds.org/debian/rb-pkg/unstable/amd64/mdds.html > > mdds is unreproducible only in sid since more things (including the > build path) are varied there. The information behind "differences" > confirms that the build path is the only issue. > > According to policy, mdds is reproducible. > And indeed its unreproducibility is not reported in tracker and ddpo (DMD does because it's using a source data that includes everything, not just the state we want to push. But then, DMD has a tendency to show *lots* of things, if you disagree with it, please take it to the DMD maintainer, not us). Unless policy is supposed to be completely detached from reality, > the criteria for claiming in various places that a package is > unreproducible have to match the policy definition of reproducibility. > IMHO, you are arguing about a non existent issue. I believe we are always being reasonable, otherwise I'd like to ask you to point us to actual situation where we could have acted better. Yes, I'm aware of the src:libreoffice case.
