Bug#907687: buildbot: FTBFS fix

[Santiago Vila <sanvila@unex.es>]

On Thu, 13 Sep 2018, Robin Jarry wrote:

> Package: src:buildbot
> Version: 1.4.0-1
> 
> This should be fixed by the latest version. I forgot to mention it in
> the changelog.
> 
> However, there are still errors in the rb page:
> 
> https://tests.reproducible-builds.org/debian/rb-pkg/unstable/amd64/buildbot.html
> 
> But I cannot manage to "reproduce" them :) The package builds fine on my
> machine (I use sbuild). I even tried building several times in a row.
> 
> Could you give me some guidance on how should I approach this?

Hmm, difficult question. I don't really know.

Usually, what works (or what people try) is to change one variable at
a time. For example, I can't reproduce this anymore using sbuild and
you say you can't either. In reproducible builds they are using
pbuilder, so one variable that you could change is to test the build
using pbuilder too.

But that was just an example, my feeling is that this is not related
to using sbuild/pbuilder but maybe something related to different CPU
speed or alike.

I would ask in the reproducible builds mailing list:

https://lists.reproducible-builds.org/listinfo/rb-general

Thanks.