Re: Raising the severity of reproduciblity issues to "important"
On Mon, Aug 24, 2015 at 10:25:01PM +0200, Niels Thykier wrote:
> In your opinion, how much of the archive should be fixed before one can
> start bumping the severity?
I don't know, but I think we should have better statistics before
deciding about that.
Quoting Holger: "This is a lie" (pointing to a graph that was being
shown on the screen). The current figures we are handling right now
refer to a modified build environment (i.e. sid + the special
sources.list line from alioth).
Also, we should better categorize the reasons why packages do not
build reproducibly.
For example: I am asked in gettext that xgettext honors the
SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH environment variable (see ##792687).
This could be a good idea by itself, but so far the packages where I
see that this change really helps are packages providing a .pot file
in the source that also regenerate it in the build process as well.
This is probably a bug even if we don't take R-B in account: Packages
should ideally not modify their own source in the build process.
However, if I apply the suggested patch, those bugs would be hidden
and we would never know about them.
So, let's see how things evolve before playing with severities.
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