Re: GSoC 2016 Week 4 and 5: Reproducible Builds in Debian
Hi, all!
Mistakenly, I had send report to outreach@debian.org instead of
debian-outreach@lists.debian.org
On Wed, Jun 29, 2016 at 9:04 PM, Satyam Zode <satyamzode@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi, all!
> This is a brief report on my last two weeks activities with Debian
> Reproducible Builds.
> In last two weeks, I mostly worked on designing an interfaces and
> tackling different issues related to argument completion feature of
> diffoscope and hiding `.buildinfo` while comparing two `.changes`
> feature.
>
> In last two weeks I did following tasks:
>
> * I researched different diffoscope outputs. In reproducible-builds
> testing framework[0] only differences of `.buildinfo` files are given
> but I needed diffoscope outputs for `.changes` files. Hence, I had to
> build packages locally[1] using our experimental tool chain[2]. My
> goal was to generate different outputs and to see how I can hide
> `.buildinfo` files from `.changes`.
> * I updated argument completion patch as per suggestions given by Paul
> Wise (pabs). Patch has been reviewed by Mattia Rizzolo, Holger Levsen
> and merged[3] by Reiner Herrmann (deki) into diffoscope master[4].
> This patch closes #826711[5]. Thanks all for support.
> * For Ignore `.buildinfo` files when comparing `.changes` files, we
> finally decided to enable this by default and without having any
> command line option to hide.
> * Last week I researched more on .changes and .buildinfo files. After
> getting guidelines from Lunar I was able to understand the need of
> this feature.
>
>
> Goal for upcoming week:
> * start the implementation of hiding .buildinfo from .changes
>
> Have nice day :)
>
>
>
> Links:
> [0]: https://tests.reproducible-builds.org/debian/reproducible.html
> [1]: https://wiki.debian.org/ReproducibleBuilds/Howto
> [2]: https://wiki.debian.org/ReproducibleBuilds/ExperimentalToolchain
> [3]: https://anonscm.debian.org/git/reproducible/diffoscope.git/commit/?id=d733cb47903c54a3c4a699131e1b7bde3e492bbf
> [4]: https://anonscm.debian.org/git/reproducible/diffoscope.git/commit/?id=77dfd8d3e5e2e5d8ba31e606ef36cbd8f2315743
> [5]: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=826711
>
> Thanks!
> Satyam Zode
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