Re: Raising the severity of reproduciblity issues to "important"
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.
Actually, I've incorporated patches in a few of them that were attached
to R-B bugs, some of them were a good idea and some of them I didn't
really agree with but they were not harmful.
> Reproducibility is not mutually exclusive with following upstream. Many
> developers have forwarded patches upstream - which I hope you will
> consider doing, so our upstreams will benefit from these improvements as
> well.
I've forwarded some upstream, the ones that I considered to be fixes for
real bugs.
Colin
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