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Bug#844431: Revised patch: seeking seconds

From	Ximin Luo <infinity0@debian.org>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.bugs.dist, linux.debian.policy
Subject	Bug#844431: Revised patch: seeking seconds
Date	2017-08-13 01:20 +0200
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Sean Whitton:
> [..]
> 
> Here is an updated patch addressing these.  I reworded it to use
> 'recommended' and changed the tone to better suit policy.
> 
> Thank you Ximin, Russ and Johannes!
> 
>> "precisification" -> "more precise version"
> 
> Our definition is not actually a /version/ of the
> reproducible-builds.org definition -- that would imply that our
> definition could replace the reproducible-builds.org definition, like
> upgrading a package.
> 
> 'precisification' means roughly "filling out the missing specification
> when it is appropriate to fill it out", which is what the r-p.org
> definition instructs distributors to do.
> 
> diff --git a/policy/ch-source.rst b/policy/ch-source.rst
> index 127b125..6e32870 100644
> --- a/policy/ch-source.rst
> +++ b/policy/ch-source.rst
> @@ -661,6 +661,28 @@ particularly complex or unintuitive source layout or build system (for
>  example, a package that builds the same source multiple times to
>  generate different binary packages).
>  
> +Reproducibility
> +---------------
> +
> +Packages should build reproducibly, which for the purposes of this
> +document [#]_ means that given
> +
> +- a version of a source package unpacked at a given path;
> +- a set of versions of installed build dependencies;
> +- a set of environment variable values;
> +- a build architecture; and
> +- a host architecture,
> +
> +repeatedly building the source package for the build architecture on
> +any machine of the host architecture with those versions of the build
> +dependencies installed and exactly those environment variable values
> +set will produce bit-for-bit identical binary packages.
> +
> +It is recommended that packages produce bit-for-bit identical binaries
> +even if most environment variables and build paths are varied.  It is
> +intended for this stricter standard to replace the above when it is
> +easier for packages to meet it.
> +
>  .. [#]
>     See the file ``upgrading-checklist`` for information about policy
>     which has changed between different versions of this document.
> @@ -790,3 +812,7 @@ generate different binary packages).
>     often creates either static linking or shared library conflicts, and,
>     most importantly, increases the difficulty of handling security
>     vulnerabilities in the duplicated code.
> +
> +.. [#]
> +   This is Debian's precisification of the `reproducible-builds.org
> +   definition <https://reproducible-builds.org/docs/definition/>`_.
> 
> 

Thanks! Seconded.

X

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Bug#844431: Revised patch: seeking seconds Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name> - 2017-08-12 20:30 +0200
  Bug#844431: Revised patch: seeking seconds Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org> - 2017-08-12 21:00 +0200
  Bug#844431: Revised patch: seeking seconds Ondrej Novy <novy@ondrej.org> - 2017-08-12 21:00 +0200
  Bug#844431: Revised patch: seeking seconds Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> - 2017-08-12 21:30 +0200
  Bug#844431: Revised patch: seeking seconds Ximin Luo <infinity0@debian.org> - 2017-08-12 22:10 +0200
    Bug#844431: Revised patch: seeking seconds Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> - 2017-08-12 22:30 +0200
      Bug#844431: Revised patch: seeking seconds Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org> - 2017-08-12 22:40 +0200
  Bug#844431: Revised patch: seeking seconds Johannes Schauer <josch@debian.org> - 2017-08-12 22:50 +0200
    Bug#844431: Revised patch: seeking seconds Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> - 2017-08-12 23:10 +0200
      Bug#844431: Revised patch: seeking seconds Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name> - 2017-08-13 00:40 +0200
        Bug#844431: Revised patch: seeking seconds Ximin Luo <infinity0@debian.org> - 2017-08-13 01:20 +0200
          Bug#844431: Revised patch: seeking seconds Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name> - 2017-08-13 14:30 +0200
        Bug#844431: Revised patch: seeking seconds Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org> - 2017-08-13 15:40 +0200
        Bug#844431: Revised patch: seeking seconds gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org> - 2017-08-13 17:00 +0200
        Bug#844431: Revised patch: seeking seconds Adrian Bunk <bunk@debian.org> - 2017-08-15 20:10 +0200
          Bug#844431: Revised patch: seeking seconds Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org> - 2017-08-15 22:10 +0200
        Bug#844431: Revised patch: Oppose Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> - 2017-08-16 17:40 +0200
          Bug#844431: Revised patch: Oppose Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> - 2017-08-16 18:40 +0200
            Bug#844431: Revised patch: Oppose Adrian Bunk <bunk@debian.org> - 2017-08-16 20:30 +0200
              Bug#844431: Revised patch: Oppose Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> - 2017-08-16 20:40 +0200
            Bug#844431: Revised patch: Oppose Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> - 2017-08-16 20:50 +0200
              Bug#844431: Revised patch: Oppose Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> - 2017-08-16 21:20 +0200
                Bug#844431: Revised patch: Oppose Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> - 2017-08-16 23:50 +0200
                Bug#844431: Revised patch: Oppose Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> - 2017-08-17 00:10 +0200
                Bug#844431: Revised patch: Oppose Ximin Luo <infinity0@debian.org> - 2017-08-21 16:30 +0200
              Bug#844431: Revised patch: Oppose Don Armstrong <don@debian.org> - 2017-08-16 21:40 +0200
                Bug#844431: Revised patch: Oppose Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> - 2017-08-17 00:00 +0200
  Bug#844431: Revised patch: seeking seconds Adrian Bunk <bunk@debian.org> - 2017-08-15 20:00 +0200
    Bug#844431: Revised patch: seeking seconds Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> - 2017-08-15 21:00 +0200
      Bug#844431: Revised patch: seeking seconds Adrian Bunk <bunk@debian.org> - 2017-08-15 21:20 +0200
        Bug#844431: Revised patch: seeking seconds Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org> - 2017-08-15 22:00 +0200
          Bug#844431: Revised patch: seeking seconds Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> - 2017-08-15 23:20 +0200
            Bug#844431: Revised patch: seeking seconds Ximin Luo <infinity0@debian.org> - 2017-08-16 18:40 +0200
        Bug#844431: Revised patch: seeking seconds Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> - 2017-08-15 22:10 +0200
          Bug#844431: Revised patch: seeking seconds Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name> - 2017-08-15 22:20 +0200
          Bug#844431: Revised patch: seeking seconds Adrian Bunk <bunk@debian.org> - 2017-08-15 23:10 +0200
            Bug#844431: Revised patch: seeking seconds Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> - 2017-08-15 23:40 +0200
            Bug#844431: Revised patch: seeking seconds Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name> - 2017-08-16 01:10 +0200
              Bug#844431: Revised patch: seeking seconds Adrian Bunk <bunk@debian.org> - 2017-08-16 07:40 +0200
            Bug#844431: Revised patch: seeking seconds Mattia Rizzolo <mattia@debian.org> - 2017-08-16 12:30 +0200
              Bug#844431: Revised patch: seeking seconds Adrian Bunk <bunk@debian.org> - 2017-08-16 13:30 +0200
                Bug#844431: Revised patch: seeking seconds Ximin Luo <infinity0@debian.org> - 2017-08-16 13:50 +0200
                Bug#844431: Revised patch: seeking seconds Adrian Bunk <bunk@debian.org> - 2017-08-16 17:10 +0200
                Bug#844431: Revised patch: seeking seconds Ximin Luo <infinity0@debian.org> - 2017-08-16 17:50 +0200
                Bug#844431: Revised patch: seeking seconds Adrian Bunk <bunk@debian.org> - 2017-08-16 18:20 +0200
                Bug#844431: Revised patch: seeking seconds Ximin Luo <infinity0@debian.org> - 2017-08-16 18:40 +0200
                Bug#844431: Revised patch: seeking seconds Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> - 2017-08-16 18:50 +0200
                Bug#844431: Revised patch: seeking seconds Ximin Luo <infinity0@debian.org> - 2017-08-16 20:30 +0200
          Bug#844431: Revised patch: seeking seconds Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> - 2017-08-15 23:40 +0200
            Bug#844431: Revised patch: seeking seconds Ximin Luo <infinity0@debian.org> - 2017-08-16 13:00 +0200
            Bug#844431: Revised patch: seeking seconds Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> - 2017-08-16 18:40 +0200
              Bug#844431: Revised patch: seeking seconds Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> - 2017-08-16 20:00 +0200
                Bug#844431: Revised patch: seeking seconds Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> - 2017-08-16 20:00 +0200
                Bug#844431: Revised patch: seeking seconds Chris Lamb <lamby@debian.org> - 2017-08-17 02:50 +0200
                Bug#844431: Revised patch: seeking seconds Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> - 2017-08-20 21:30 +0200
                Bug#844431: Revised patch: seeking seconds Chris Lamb <lamby@debian.org> - 2017-08-21 02:40 +0200
      Bug#872288: debian-policy: document .buildinfo files Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org> - 2017-08-15 21:50 +0200

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