reprotest: inadvertent misconfiguration in salsa-ci config

2024-02-26 Thread James Addison via rb-general
Hello, A few hundred packages that use reprotest in Salsa-CI appear to be misconfigured; the remainder of this message explains the problem, and asks for help figuring out what to do. Context --- The reprotest[1] utility tests reproducibility of .deb package builds by performing two

Two questions about build-path reproducibility in Debian

2024-02-26 Thread James Addison via rb-general
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