Forwarding to the bug tracker upon request, even if it's slightly off-topic.
The conversation started at https://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/reproducible-builds/Week-of-Mon-20160815/006686.html On Wed, Oct 5, 2016 at 2:18 PM, Jeremy Bicha <jbi...@ubuntu.com> wrote: > On Wed, Oct 5, 2016 at 1:57 PM, Chris Lamb <la...@debian.org> wrote: >> network-manager-openvpn fails to build from source in unstable/amd64: > > Replying off-bug. > > This is because the new Debian version switched to dh compat 10 (with > parallel building by default), but it built fine on Michael's > computer. The issue is that the tests are not parallel-safe. I already > discussed the issue with Michael. > > If the reproducible builds project is filing FTBFS bugs (which you do > a lot of and tag as being related to the reproducible project), then I > think its scope is pretty broad. And I don't think my suggestion to > test whether output varies with parallel building disabled is too far > removed from your goals. > > dh 10 is now the recommended compat version and a growing number of > packages are using it already with the dh sequencer. > > Jeremy
