Control: severity -1 wishlist Hi!
On Thu, 2013-08-15 at 19:46:25 -0400, Asheesh Laroia wrote: > Package: dpkg > Version: 1.16.10 > Severity: normal > > Summary: To move toward https://wiki.debian.org/ReproducibleBuilds > for maintainers who want their binary packages to be able to be > reproduced bit-for-bit, it would be needed for dpkg to sort the > files before adding them to the tar files of > {data,control}.tar.{xz,bz2,gz}. > > That way, the creation of the data.tar.gz would be deterministic. Indeed, that's something that has been on the back of my mind for some time now, and that I was/am planning on fixing during the 1.17.x cycle. This will also be part of a two step process to guarantee the dpkg database is also more deterministic, dpkg would need to sort (preserving symlinks at the end) the files when dumping them on the database (to cater for older unsorted debs). Thanks, Guillem -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
