Bug#900918: debian-installer: Please make the generated images reproducible

[Chris Lamb <lamby@debian.org>]

Hi Cyril,

> I think I'd prefer closing this very bug report whenever what's in
> git gets uploaded

That would definitely work for me. Indeed, it would probably help
separate discussions/issues correctly as any followups are likely =
to be much more specific.

> half the build time is spent waiting for gzip to finish its work on
> a single core. Reproducibility is very nice but I would definitely
> hate to lose this huge speed-up.

Absolutely, hence my regret at suggesting a fallback to gzip. *nod*

> > Perhaps we need to record the environment after all
[…]
> Ah right, pigz isn't in Build-Depends, so it's not included in the
> .buildinfo file…

"the .buildinfo"? As I understood it we are not recording any
explicit debian-installer build attestation document that records
the environment at the moment. Again, will reload this all into my
head soon and come up with a suggested solution if required in
another bug report.

Thanks again. :)


Best wishes,

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