Source: python-x2go Version: 0.6.1.4-1 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch User: reproducible-bui...@lists.alioth.debian.org Usertags: buildpath
Dear Maintainer, I'm an occasional volunteer contributor with the Reproducible Builds[1] project, and noticed recently that the python-x2go-doc package failed[2] an automated reproducibility test on Debian. >From investigation, it seems that most if not all of the cause of non-reproducibility during the test was due to the Sphinx autodoc extension evaluating some of the default Python method values (like sessions_rootdir[3]) at build-time and including the evaluated value, which varied, in the documentation. Because the value of the parameter is determined at _runtime_ (because Python code is not compiled), this does _not_ indicate any baked-in problem with the python3-x2go package -- but it does create a reproducibility problem for the python-x2go-doc package. As a workaround, we can enable the 'autodoc_preserve_defaults'[4] configuration setting, meaning that Sphinx will render the method signature defaults using the original source code as-written, instead of evaluating the corresponding values. I'll offer a merge request on Salsa to make that change, and will link that to this bugreport. Thanks, James [1] - https://reproducible-builds.org/ [2] - https://tests.reproducible-builds.org/debian/rb-pkg/trixie/arm64/diffoscope-results/python-x2go.html [3] - https://sources.debian.org/src/python-x2go/0.6.1.4-1/x2go/backends/proxy/base.py/#L76 [4] - https://www.sphinx-doc.org/en/master/usage/extensions/autodoc.html#confval-autodoc_preserve_defaults