Eric V. Smith added the comment: -- Eric.
> On Mar 3, 2017, at 6:36 AM, Bernhard M. Wiedemann <rep...@bugs.python.org> > wrote: > > > New submission from Bernhard M. Wiedemann: > > See https://reproducible-builds.org/ and > https://reproducible-builds.org/docs/buy-in/ for why this is a good thing to > have in general. > > Fedora, openSUSE and possibly other Linux distributions package .pyc files as > part of their binary rpm packages and they are not trivial to drop [1]. > > A .pyc header includes the timestamp of the source .py file > which creates non-reproducible builds when the .py file is touched during > build time (e.g. for a version.py). > As of 2017-02-10 in openSUSE Factory this affected 476 packages (such as > python-amqp and python3-Twisted). > > > [1] http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-packaging/2017-02/msg00086.html > > ---------- > components: Build, Distutils > messages: 288880 > nosy: bmwiedemann, dstufft, merwok > priority: normal > pull_requests: 353 > severity: normal > status: open > title: support reproducible Python builds > versions: Python 2.7, Python 3.3, Python 3.4, Python 3.5, Python 3.6 > > _______________________________________ > Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> > <http://bugs.python.org/issue29708> > _______________________________________ > _______________________________________________ > New-bugs-announce mailing list > new-bugs-annou...@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/new-bugs-announce > ---------- nosy: +eric.smith _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue29708> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
