Santiago Vila wrote:
> Hi. To summarize: I'd appreciate a more detailed explanation about why
> the patch is needed (if it's needed at all at this point).
Hm, the difficulty here is that the packaging and the surrounding
toolchain has changed quite a bit since we filed this bug, and we
don't keep historical archives of diffoscope output.
Looking again at my patch, however, what I believe was happening in
the past was that the build user (or similar) was being embedded into
a binary or in some configuration file. This doesn't appear to be
happening anymore on amd64 in our testing framework, and neither does
it occur locally on my amd64 laptop. What I can say is that smartlist
was definitely unreproducible on my laptop back in 2020, otherwise I
would not have filed a patch.
As to why it remains unreproducible on i386 today, I can't immediately
see why that is happening. But I don't think it's related to the
rationale I gave above. I therefore think keeping this "- patch" and
"+ moreinfo" is correct.
Regards,
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