Bug#844431: policy: packages should be reproducible

[Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>]

On Sun, 2017-05-14 at 15:20:54 +0000, Holger Levsen wrote:
> On Sun, May 14, 2017 at 05:05:36PM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote:
> > OK, but how can I check that my package build is reproducible before uploading
> > it ?
> 
> in general you cannot find out with 100% certainity whether a given source package
> will be reproducible. You can only find out with certainity if a package is *not*
> reproducible…
> 
> that said
> 
> a.) go to http://reproducible.debian.net/$srcpkg and see if its reproducible today.
> 
> 	Bill, did you do this for your packages?
> 	And then there is also https://tests.reproducible-builds.org/debian/unstable/index_dd-list.html#ballombe@debian.org
> 		which shows that half of your 26 packages in sid (main) are unreproducible
> 		with build path variation, though most of those unreproducible ones
> 		are reproducible without build path variation…
> 	-> https://tests.reproducible-builds.org/debian/testing/index_dd-list.html#ballombe@debian.org
> 		only shows 4 unreproducible packages…

b.0.) use debrepro (from devscripts)

> b.) build it twice and compare using diffoscope
> c.) use reprotest

Thanks,
Guillem