On 8 May 2017 at 19:06, Ximin Luo wrote: | Package: r-base-dev | Version: 3.4.0-1.0~reproducible2 | Severity: wishlist | Tags: upstream patch | User: reproducible-bui...@lists.alioth.debian.org | Usertags: build-path | | Dear Maintainer, | | I've been asked to file this bug report so that others working on the | Reproducible Builds project can better track the ongoing issue of | build-path-independent reproducibility in various tools and compilers. I don't | mean to imply to rush this process nor pressure you, this report is only for | informational purposes. | | As you know, I've already contacted upstream with a proposed patch: | - https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-devel/2017-April/074138.html | - https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-devel/2017-May/074181.html (patch amended) | | These may be browsed as git commits here: | - https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/reproducible/r-base.git/log/?h=pu/reproducible_builds | | The built packages may be downloaded here: | - https://reproducible.alioth.debian.org/debian/ | - https://tests.reproducible-builds.org/debian/index_repositories.html (overview) | | The reproducibility status of dependent packages is being tracked on these pages: | - https://tests.reproducible-builds.org/debian/issues/unstable/randomness_in_r_rdb_rds_databases_issue.html | | We're currently waiting to hear back from upstream to see if they think the | patch will negatively impact the behaviour of any R packages. At minimum, we | likely have to amend it to guard the behaviour behind some sort of run-time | option, as was done for a similar patch for timestamps in #774031.
At work now with limited time, but I think I already told you twice that there were two of the three parts of the patch you proposed to upstream that I would not take, were I upstream (which I am not). A decent longer-term strategy may well to stress-test the patch by including it in our builds for a while. We can work on that. Dirk | | Ximin | | -- System Information: | Debian Release: 9.0 | APT prefers testing | APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'testing-debug'), (300, 'unstable'), (200, 'experimental'), (1, 'experimental-debug') | Architecture: amd64 | (x86_64) | Foreign Architectures: i386 | | Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) | Locale: LANG=en_GB.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) | Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash | Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) | | Versions of packages r-base-dev depends on: | ii build-essential 12.3 | ii cdbs 0.4.150 | ii g++ 4:6.3.0-4 | ii gcc 4:6.3.0-4 | ii gfortran 4:6.3.0-4 | ii libatlas-base-dev 3.10.3-1+b1 | ii libblas-dev 3.7.0-1 | ii libbz2-dev 1.0.6-8.1 | ii libicu-dev 57.1-6 | ii libjpeg-dev 1:1.5.1-2 | ii libjpeg62-turbo-dev [libjpeg-dev] 1:1.5.1-2 | ii liblapack-dev 3.7.0-1 | ii liblzma-dev 5.2.2-1.2+b1 | ii libncurses5-dev 6.0+20161126-1 | ii libpcre3-dev 2:8.39-3 | ii libpng-dev 1.6.28-1 | ii libreadline-dev 7.0-2 | ii pkg-config 0.29-4+b1 | ii r-base-core 3.4.0-1.0~reproducible2 | ii xauth 1:1.0.9-1+b2 | ii zlib1g-dev 1:1.2.8.dfsg-5 | | r-base-dev recommends no packages. | | Versions of packages r-base-dev suggests: | ii debhelper 10.2.5 | ii texinfo 6.3.0.dfsg.1-1+b2 | ii texlive-base 2016.20170123-5 | ii texlive-extra-utils 2016.20170123-5 | ii texlive-fonts-extra 2016.20170123-5 | ii texlive-fonts-recommended 2016.20170123-5 | ii texlive-generic-recommended 2016.20170123-5 | ii texlive-latex-base 2016.20170123-5 | ii texlive-latex-extra 2016.20170123-5 | ii texlive-latex-recommended 2016.20170123-5 | | -- no debconf information -- http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | e...@debian.org
