Debian Bug report logs - #838713
python-xlib: please make the build reproducible

Reply or subscribe to this bug.

Toggle useless messages

Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Chris Lamb <lamby@debian.org>

To: submit@bugs.debian.org

Subject: python-xlib: please make the build reproducible

Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2016 21:52:34 +0100

[Message part 1 (text/plain, inline)]

Source: python-xlib
Version: 0.14+20091101-5
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch
User: reproducible-builds@lists.alioth.debian.org
Usertags: timestamps
X-Debbugs-Cc: reproducible-builds@lists.alioth.debian.org

Hi,

Whilst working on the Reproducible Builds effort [0], I noticed
that python-xlib could not be built reproducibly.

Patch attached.

 [0] https://reproducible-builds.org/


Regards,

-- 
      ,''`.
     : :'  :     Chris Lamb
     `. `'`      lamby@debian.org / chris-lamb.co.uk
       `-

[python-xlib.diff.txt (text/plain, attachment)]

Message #10 received at 838713@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Chris Lamb <lamby@debian.org>

To: 838713@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#838713: python-xlib: please make the build reproducible

Date: Mon, 07 Nov 2016 10:49:46 +0000

Dear Maintainer,

> Source: python-xlib
> Version: 0.14+20091101-5
> Tags: patch

There hasn't seem to be any update on this bug in 44 days, in which
time the Reproducible Builds effort has come on a long way. :)

Would you consider applying this patch and uploading?


Regards,

-- 
      ,''`.
     : :'  :     Chris Lamb
     `. `'`      lamby@debian.org / chris-lamb.co.uk
       `-

Message #15 received at 838713@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Chris Lamb <lamby@debian.org>

To: 838713@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#838713: python-xlib: please make the build reproducible

Date: Mon, 09 Jan 2017 11:10:38 +0000

Dear Maintainer,

> Source: python-xlib
> Version: 0.14+20091101-1
> Tags: patch

Alas, there hasn't seem to be any further update to this bug in 63 days.
Would you consider applying this patch and uploading prior to the upcoming
release? :)


Best wishes,

-- 
      ,''`.
     : :'  :     Chris Lamb
     `. `'`      lamby@debian.org / chris-lamb.co.uk
       `-

Message #20 received at 838713@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Jeremy Bicha <jbicha@debian.org>

To: 838713@bugs.debian.org, Andrew Shadura <andrewsh@debian.org>, Chris Lamb <lamby@debian.org>

Subject: Re: Bug#838713: python-xlib: please make the build reproducible

Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2017 20:00:28 -0500

Chris, there is a good chance that the person doing uploads never saw
your proposed patch because he isn't listed in the Maintainer field
and therefore doesn't automatically receive bug mail.

Andrew, I encourage you to consider subscribing to this package at
https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/python-xlib

For reference, here's the bug and patch:
https://bugs.debian.org/838713

Thanks,
Jeremy Bicha

Message #25 received at 838713@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Andrew Shadura <andrewsh@debian.org>

To: Jeremy Bicha <jbicha@debian.org>

Cc: 838713@bugs.debian.org, Chris Lamb <lamby@debian.org>

Subject: Re: Bug#838713: python-xlib: please make the build reproducible

Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2017 15:37:38 +0000

Hi,

On 27 November 2017 at 01:00, Jeremy Bicha <jbicha@debian.org> wrote:
> Chris, there is a good chance that the person doing uploads never saw
> your proposed patch because he isn't listed in the Maintainer field
> and therefore doesn't automatically receive bug mail.
>
> Andrew, I encourage you to consider subscribing to this package at
> https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/python-xlib
>
> For reference, here's the bug and patch:
> https://bugs.debian.org/838713

I have updated the package to not use texi2html at all, but I cannot
figure out whether the patch Chris proposed is needed or not, as
makeinfo lacks the option used in the patch, and I'm not sure it does
the right thing without any options at all.

-- 
Cheers,
  Andrew

Message #30 received at 838713@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: "Chris Lamb" <lamby@debian.org>

To: 838713@bugs.debian.org, reproducible-bugs@lists.alioth.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#838713: python-xlib: please make the build reproducible

Date: Sat, 12 Sep 2020 22:53:02 -0000

Chris Lamb wrote:

> [..]

Gentle ping on this?


Regards,

-- 
      ,''`.
     : :'  :     Chris Lamb
     `. `'`      lamby@debian.org / chris-lamb.co.uk
       `-

Message #35 received at 838713@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Emmanuel Arias <emmanuelarias30@gmail.com>

To: 838713@bugs.debian.org

Subject: python-xlib: please make the build reproducible

Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2020 23:54:55 -0300

[Message part 1 (text/plain, inline)]

Hi,

After reviewing the package, moreinfo is usted instead of
texi2html. IMHO the patch proposed is no longer need,
and reprotest don't fail anymore.

The package need a human maintainer, please consider add you
as uploaders. If there isn't interest in it, I can add myself :)


Cheers,
Arias Emmanuel
@eamanu
http://eamanu.com

[Message part 2 (text/html, inline)]

Message #40 received at 838713@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: James Addison <jay@jp-hosting.net>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <838713@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: Re: python-xlib: please make the build reproducible

Date: Sun, 25 Sep 2022 17:24:33 +0100

Source: python-xlib
Followup-For: Bug #838713
X-Debbugs-Cc: jay@jp-hosting.net, andrewsh@debian.org

Hello,

I agree with Emmanuel that the problem has been solved (for *most* releases of
Debian) by the existing patch[1] that replaces texi2html with makeinfo in the
python-xlib HTML documentation build.

The only release where python-xlib does *not* seem to build reproducibly is in
the *stretch* release (oldoldstable - now beyond LTS).

On 2020-02-13, diffoscope detected[2] differences between side-by-side builds
of version 0.14+20091101-5 of the package in stretch.

I think that those differences appeared because the python-xlib 0.14+20091101-5
package predates *both* the switch to use makeinfo, and also the texi2html
patch[3] that removes embedded usernames from the "generated by ..." footer
output in the documents generated by texi2html (the cause of the variance).

Although I don't know whether there is ongoing desire/need to improve build
reproducibility for stretch packages, it looks like that could be achieved in
this case by either backporting the makeinfo patch, *or* by a version update of
texi2html in stretch from 1.82+dfsg1-5 (which includes the embedded usernames)
to 1.82+dfsg1-6 (in which the embedded usernames are removed).

Note 1: the makeinfo approach relies on a SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH support patch[4]
that fixed Debian bug #826158... and that is available in Debian stretch (it is
included in the texinfo 6.3.0.dfsg.1-1 package, available in that release).

Note 2: Support for SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH in makeinfo was also added[5] upstream
and is included in version 6.5.0 of texinfo.

Regards,
James

[1] - https://salsa.debian.org/python-team/packages/python-xlib/-/commit/8ed87d9cccba52aea8b473d610802cd7e1f9df90

[2] - https://tests.reproducible-builds.org/debian/rb-pkg/stretch/amd64/diffoscope-results/python-xlib.html

[3] - https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?att=1;bug=961764;filename=texi2html.debdiff.diff;msg=10

[4] - https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?att=1;bug=826158;filename=reproducible-info-output;msg=5

[5] - http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/texinfo.git/commit/?id=08a0f0c9efa657a461a654b73b840bfdacbbd5aa

Send a report that this bug log contains spam.