Re: Raising the severity of reproduciblity issues to "important"

2017-09-02 Thread Holger Levsen
On Fri, Sep 01, 2017 at 06:34:38PM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: > On Fri, 2017-09-01 at 12:43 +0200, Helmut Grohne wrote: > > Whatever point you were trying to make around NEW, your argument is not > > very convincing. I think Holger is right here: Where the package is > > built should not matter. Pr

Re: Raising the severity of reproduciblity issues to "important"

2017-09-01 Thread Ian Campbell
On Fri, 2017-09-01 at 12:43 +0200, Helmut Grohne wrote: > Whatever point you were trying to make around NEW, your argument is not > very convincing. I think Holger is right here: Where the package is > built should not matter. Presence of .buildinfo and reproducibility > does. Appollogies if this

Re: Raising the severity of reproduciblity issues to "important"

2017-09-01 Thread Helmut Grohne
On Fri, Sep 01, 2017 at 11:07:17AM +0100, Simon McVittie wrote: > The problem with maintainer-built binaries around NEW is that if they > wait in the NEW queue for (let's say) 1 month, then by the time they > reach the archive, they were built with a 1 month old toolchain and > build-dependencies,

Re: normal bugs (Re: Raising the severity of reproduciblity issues to "important")

2017-09-01 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Fri, Sep 01, 2017 at 09:43:54AM +, Holger Levsen wrote: > On Fri, Sep 01, 2017 at 09:34:53AM +0300, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > On Sun, Aug 23, 2015 at 12:48:50PM +0200, Chris Lamb wrote: > > >... > > > However, based on an informal survey at DebConf (and to reflect the > > > feeling towards soft

Re: Raising the severity of reproduciblity issues to "important"

2017-09-01 Thread Simon McVittie
On Fri, 01 Sep 2017 at 09:40:25 +, Holger Levsen wrote: > On Fri, Sep 01, 2017 at 09:26:44AM +0300, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > AFAIK the only place where we currently still need binary packages that > > have been built on a maintainer machine is for [...] > > the fun part is that once a package

normal bugs (Re: Raising the severity of reproduciblity issues to "important")

2017-09-01 Thread Holger Levsen
On Fri, Sep 01, 2017 at 09:34:53AM +0300, Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Sun, Aug 23, 2015 at 12:48:50PM +0200, Chris Lamb wrote: > >... > > However, based on an informal survey at DebConf (and to reflect the > > feeling towards software reproducibility in the free software community > > in general) unles

Re: Raising the severity of reproduciblity issues to "important"

2017-09-01 Thread Holger Levsen
On Fri, Sep 01, 2017 at 09:26:44AM +0300, Adrian Bunk wrote: > AFAIK the only place where we currently still need binary packages that > have been built on a maintainer machine is for [...] the fun part is that once a package builds bit by bit identically, it doesnt matter anymore where it's bee

Re: Raising the severity of reproduciblity issues to "important"

2017-09-01 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi! On Fri, 2017-09-01 at 09:26:44 +0300, Adrian Bunk wrote: > AFAIK the only place where we currently still need binary packages that > have been built on a maintainer machine is for NEW, and after someone > has implemented a solution for that there is no blocker left for > allowing only source

Re: Raising the severity of reproduciblity issues to "important"

2017-08-31 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Sun, Aug 23, 2015 at 12:48:50PM +0200, Chris Lamb wrote: >... > However, based on an informal survey at DebConf (and to reflect the > feeling towards software reproducibility in the free software community > in general) unless there are strong objections I intend to raise the > severity of these

Re: Raising the severity of reproduciblity issues to "important"

2017-08-31 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Mon, Aug 24, 2015 at 11:41:21PM +0200, Vincent Bernat wrote: > ❦ 24 août 2015 22:30 +0100, Colin Tuckley  : > > >> We have pushed other archive-wide goals that were not shared by > >> all upstreams. For example, we have enabled hardening build flags > >> on almost all packages and for packages

Re: Raising the severity of reproduciblity issues to "important"

2015-08-30 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Mon, Aug 24, 2015 at 10:30:45PM +0100, Colin Tuckley wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA256 > > On 24/08/15 22:02, Vincent Bernat wrote: > > > We have pushed other archive-wide goals that were not shared by > > all upstreams. For example, we have enabled hardening build fla

Re: Raising the severity of reproduciblity issues to "important"

2015-08-24 Thread Steve Langasek
On Mon, Aug 24, 2015 at 10:25:01PM +0200, Niels Thykier wrote: > > It is really so much difficult to make this in stages? > > For example: > > Stage 1. Make it a policy *recommendation*, with normal severity. > > Stage 2. Make it a policy "should", with important severity. > > Stage 3. Make it a r

Re: Raising the severity of reproduciblity issues to "important"

2015-08-24 Thread Chris Lamb
> Quoting Holger: "This is a lie" (pointing to a graph that was being > shown on the screen). The current figures we are handling right now > refer to a modified build environment (i.e. sid + the special > sources.list line from alioth). I do not intend to change anything until these changes have

Re: Raising the severity of reproduciblity issues to "important"

2015-08-24 Thread Santiago Vila
On Mon, Aug 24, 2015 at 10:25:01PM +0200, Niels Thykier wrote: > In your opinion, how much of the archive should be fixed before one can > start bumping the severity? I don't know, but I think we should have better statistics before deciding about that. Quoting Holger: "This is a lie" (pointing t

Re: Raising the severity of reproduciblity issues to "important"

2015-08-24 Thread Christoph Biedl
Santiago Vila wrote... > Making a great percentage of packages in the archive to be "suddenly" > buggy is unacceptable. Nobody would consider making failing r12y "serious" at the current state where 13 to 17 percent of the packages fail, depending on how you read the numbers. > We all want Debia

Re: Raising the severity of reproduciblity issues to "important"

2015-08-24 Thread Vincent Bernat
❦ 24 août 2015 22:30 +0100, Colin Tuckley  : >> We have pushed other archive-wide goals that were not shared by >> all upstreams. For example, we have enabled hardening build flags >> on almost all packages and for packages that don't obey to the >> appropriate flags, bugs with severity "importan

Re: Raising the severity of reproduciblity issues to "important"

2015-08-24 Thread Colin Tuckley
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 24/08/15 22:02, Vincent Bernat wrote: > We have pushed other archive-wide goals that were not shared by > all upstreams. For example, we have enabled hardening build flags > on almost all packages and for packages that don't obey to the > appropr

Re: Raising the severity of reproduciblity issues to "important"

2015-08-24 Thread Russ Allbery
Niels Thykier writes: > On 2015-08-24 21:24, Santiago Vila wrote: >> We all want Debian to build reproducibly, but goals are achieved by >> submitting bugs, changing packages and making uploads, not by rising >> severities. > I agree in general that people should make an effort to improve the >

Re: Raising the severity of reproduciblity issues to "important"

2015-08-24 Thread Colin Tuckley
On 24/08/15 21:42, Niels Thykier wrote: > Are you aware that 37 out of 40 of your packages can currently be build > reproducible in unstable using the patched toolchain (e.g. dpkg and > debhelper). This (I presume) is without you having done anything to > make them explicitly reproducible. Actua

Re: Raising the severity of reproduciblity issues to "important"

2015-08-24 Thread Vincent Bernat
❦ 24 août 2015 21:12 +0100, Colin Tuckley  : >> Well, I object strongly. > > Same here, in my view reproducibility is a 'nice to have' it should > *never* be forced on a package. > > We are in the business of packaging upstream software for > distribution. We should not make arbitrary changes to

Re: Raising the severity of reproduciblity issues to "important"

2015-08-24 Thread Niels Thykier
Hi, On 2015-08-24 22:06, Matthias Klose wrote: > [...] So what about identifying categories which should be fixed in any > case, and maybe which should have special rules for accelerated NMUs and such? Personally, I find that proposal quite interesting. > Categories would include: > > - runnin

Re: Raising the severity of reproduciblity issues to "important"

2015-08-24 Thread Niels Thykier
Hi, On 2015-08-24 22:12, Colin Tuckley wrote: > [...] > Same here, in my view reproducibility is a 'nice to have' it should > *never* be forced on a package. > > We are in the business of packaging upstream software for > distribution. We should not make arbitrary changes to upstream > software

Re: Raising the severity of reproduciblity issues to "important"

2015-08-24 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2015-08-24 21:24, Santiago Vila wrote: > [...] > Hi Santiago, > Making a great percentage of packages in the archive to be "suddenly" > buggy is unacceptable. > I can see where you are coming from. I have to admit that I am personally not too concerned with the severity change. Given it i

Re: Raising the severity of reproduciblity issues to "important"

2015-08-24 Thread Colin Tuckley
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 24/08/15 20:24, Santiago Vila wrote: > Well, I object strongly. Same here, in my view reproducibility is a 'nice to have' it should *never* be forced on a package. We are in the business of packaging upstream software for distribution. We shoul

Re: Raising the severity of reproduciblity issues to "important"

2015-08-24 Thread Matthias Klose
On 08/23/2015 12:48 PM, Chris Lamb wrote: > Hi -devel, > > The reproducible-builds team are currently contributing patches with > "wishlist" severity. > > This is because it is not currently possible to build reproducible > packages within sid itself - we maintain a separate repository whilst > o

Re: Raising the severity of reproduciblity issues to "important"

2015-08-24 Thread Santiago Vila
On Sun, Aug 23, 2015 at 12:48:50PM +0200, Chris Lamb wrote: > The reproducible-builds team are currently contributing patches with > "wishlist" severity. > > This is because it is not currently possible to build reproducible > packages within sid itself - we maintain a separate repository whilst >

Re: Raising the severity of reproduciblity issues to "important"

2015-08-24 Thread Antonio Terceiro
On Sun, Aug 23, 2015 at 12:48:50PM +0200, Chris Lamb wrote: > Hi -devel, > > The reproducible-builds team are currently contributing patches with > "wishlist" severity. > > This is because it is not currently possible to build reproducible > packages within sid itself - we maintain a separate rep

Re: Raising the severity of reproduciblity issues to "important"

2015-08-24 Thread Olivier Berger
Hi. Chris Lamb writes: > Hi -devel, > > The reproducible-builds team are currently contributing patches with > "wishlist" severity. > > This is because it is not currently possible to build reproducible > packages within sid itself - we maintain a separate repository whilst > our changes to the

Raising the severity of reproduciblity issues to "important"

2015-08-23 Thread Chris Lamb
Hi -devel, The reproducible-builds team are currently contributing patches with "wishlist" severity. This is because it is not currently possible to build reproducible packages within sid itself - we maintain a separate repository whilst our changes to the toolchain are pending review and consult