Thanks for explaining! I agree. /Simon
Vagrant Cascadian <[email protected]> writes: > On 2026-03-13, Simon Josefsson wrote: >> Would it be useful to only send these e-mails when some additional >> information is available to allow further debugging? > > I suspect the script used currently is rather simplistic, so it might be > a lot of complicated work to get that extra level of functionality for > the hopefully infrequent cases of missing diffoscope output, build logs, > etc. which we would generally prefer to fix at the source if > possible. It might even lead to another level of complications which > introduce additional issues in the reporting process... > > >> Right now all I can see below is two build logs, but that is not >> sufficient for me to debug further or resolv this. >> >> Diffoscope output between the packages is what is normally is required. > > Indeed. > > If there is a problem (and not just a fluke glitch), generally one would > need to figure out how to test it locally as well, including running > diffoscope... > > >> I've rescheduled the reproducible build, so maybe it appears later on. > > Looks like the rescheduled builds succeeded, at least! > > >> I don't understand when diffoscope output appears on >> tests.reproducible-builds.org, and when it doesn't. It seems somewhat >> random to me, but there is probably some logic behind it. > > There can be a large and wide variety of causes, some of which are > non-deterministic ... e.g. the current load level of the system running > diffoscope might trigger timeouts, a job that triggers out-of-disk > errors (possibly indirectly breaking other diffoscope jobs), a poorly > timed system reboot... > > Some inputs consistently cause problems for diffoscope, but *most* of > these issues are infrequent and intermittant... > > > live well, > vagrant >
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