Guillem Jover <guil...@debian.org> writes: > Let's assume compressor (gzip/bzip2/xz/etc) version M gets uploaded to > sid generating a reproducible output across all current architectures. > Time passes, compressor version N (and even O and P and Q etc) gets > uploaded, which starts producing new ouput (on each of those versions). > A new architecture gets added to Debian, and because previous compressor > versions are not in the archive anymore, all packages built with them > have different checksums than the new ones. This means *all* those > packages have to be binNMUed across *all* the architectures, or the > porters need to hunt down every specific compressor version used to > build those packages to be able to reproduce the build on their arch. > This seems highly suboptimal and “future-unproof”...
Yes, agreed. I think this is a rather compelling argument against relying on reproducibility of compressor output. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87wr7xqdys....@windlord.stanford.edu
