Bug#861646: ITP: reprounzip -- Linux tools for reproducible experiments

[Ghislain Vaillant <ghisvail@gmail.com>]

On Tue, 2017-05-02 at 15:14 -0400, Rémi Rampin wrote:
> 2017-05-02 15:05 EDT, Ghislain Vaillant <ghisvail@gmail.com>:
> > Thanks for clarifying. Just out-of-curiosity, why is the tracer
> > restricted to x86?
> 
> There is no technical limitation here, I would just have to write the
> system call map [1] for other platforms (and find a CI service I can
> test it on). It might be implemented in a future version, it is just
> not there yet.

I can offer to build and test the package for linux-any achitectures
instead of just (amd64, i386). This way you'll have access to our logs
if you want to do some testing.

> > Would you prefer "on Linux platforms" instead?
> 
> What about "Tool for reproducing Linux experiments"?
> 
> 
> [1]: https://github.com/ViDA-NYU/reprozip/blob/b759459f60290756859af0b2f87c634353294e53/reprozip/native/syscalls.c#L901

Since we are struggling with where to put Linux (I don't think this
iteration is good either), why not just dropping it altogether:

"Tool for reproducing scientific experiments"

And leave the details to the long description.