Hi folks, A quick recap: in July 2023, Debian's package build infrastructure (buildd) intentionally began using a fixed directory path during package builds (bug #1034424). Previously, some string randomness existed within each source build directory path.
I've two questions related to buildpaths - one relevant to the Salsa-CI team, and the other a RB-team housekeeping question: 1. [Salsa] Recently Debian's CI pipeline was reconfigured[1] to enable more variance in builds. However: I think that change also (inadvertently?) enabled buildpath variation. Is that useful and/or aligned with Debian package migration incentives[2] -- or should we disable that buildpath variance? 2. [RB] Housekeeping: we use Debian's bugtracker to record packages with buildpath-related build problems[3]. Do we want to keep those bugs open, or should we close them? Thanks, James [1] - https://salsa.debian.org/salsa-ci-team/pipeline/-/merge_requests/468 [2] - "Reproducibility migration policy" @ https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2023/12/msg00003.html [3] - https://udd.debian.org/bugs/?release=any&pending=ign&merged=ign&done=ign&fnewerval=7&flastmodval=7&fusertag=only&fusertagtag=buildpath&fusertaguser=reproducible-builds%40lists.alioth.debian.org&reproducible=1&sortby=id&sorto=asc&format=html#results