Hi Niels,
>If the old and the new binary have the same build-id, they can reuse the >same debug symbols - regardless of the debug symbols are installed by >name or by build id. :) > so the __TIME__ __DATE__ macros are not used, but *might* be used and not during the build-id computation, but during build, right? (I mean, it is a side-effect, not a requirement) >So if Thomas can use the old foo with the new foo-dbg, then I guess: > >* foo-dbg is missing the strict mandatory dependency (or Thomas passed > force options to dpkg), and >* Thomas built it in the same path as the previous location with the > same options, and >* upstream does not use any time based macros? > > >On the plus side, this would imply that the ELF binaries are build >reproducibly. :) Yes, I fully agree, this was the same conclusion. I guess it is a good empiric method for knowing if the build is reproducible :) thanks a lot! (that is a field where I don't touch if it isn't broken, and usually it worked so well that I never had to touch it :D ) cheers, G.
