Holger Levsen: > Hi, > > binutils 2.25-6 (which is long in testing + sid) made the build > reproducible (#774429). In that course that bug was cloned into #781262, > which asks for the ar handler of strip-nondeterminism to be removed. > > I'm slightly confused now, but (why) is binutils the only package > benefitting from said ar handler and can it really go? >
It could still be kept, since there are non-GNU tools that handle ar files, such as llvm-ar(1) which may or may not be deterministic. I'm not sure how many packages use this, and it might be good to remove this anyway so that we have a chance to detect whether llvm-ar(1) truly is or is not deterministic. Also this handler is itself slightly buggy, see #843811. https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=843811 X -- GPG: ed25519/56034877E1F87C35 GPG: rsa4096/1318EFAC5FBBDBCE https://github.com/infinity0/pubkeys.git
