[adding 1002...@bugs.debian.org to CC] Hi all,
>> I just noticed a reproducibility issue in a package that transitioned >> from dh-perl6 to dh-raku, and it introduced some reproducibility issues >> in the raku-tap-harness in precomp files, e.g.: > > I think this was already briefly discussed in #1002496 Yes, indeed. As I mentioned in that bug, I initially thought they were accidentally-distributed temporary/build files; something that's actually quite common in Debian and comes up quite a lot when doing Reproducible Builds stuff. If I had realised they were the result of deliberate pre-compilation efforts, I would probably not have filed that bug. Or, rather: I wouldn't have done without a patch to fix the issue! In other words, sorry for the essentially unactionable bug, although it *is* serving as a useful place to dump information as we inch towards a solution. (I have included #1002496 on the CC of this thread, perhaps to avoid any potential duplication in the future.) >> But there aren't many [tagged] packages there (yay?), and the >> description is a bit terse suggesting that these files should not >> be shipped at all... > > Well … Oh, don't read into that description, Vagrant! That's likely my description based on my jejune understanding of the problem at the time (see above). Please feel free to update it — I have nothing against precompilation as a general rule. >> They appear to be hashed filenames, what goes into the hash that >> produces them (file path? timestamp? etc.), and could that be made >> reproducible? > > That would be nice indeed. > > I once experimented by comparing the "old" > precompiled-at-instalation-time and the precompiled-at-build-time > files on my laptop, and interesetingly they were the same. Or I > missed something. But yeah, rebuilding with reprepo shows that paths > are embedded which ist Not Good™. Thanks for confirming in reprepro. This is also confirmed by me at the end of #1002496. I haven't done any other investigating yet. For completeness, another related bug in this area is: https://bugs.debian.org/1003159 ... although that is related to the contents of foo.dh-raku.list files. It is, I think, pretty uncontroversial. Regards, -- ,''`. : :' : Chris Lamb `. `'` la...@debian.org 🍥 chris-lamb.co.uk `-
