Re: RFC: dpkg patch to using -ffile-prefix-map

2018-07-30 Thread Guillem Jover
On Tue, 2018-07-31 at 10:40:08 +0800, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: > On 2018-07-31, Guillem Jover wrote: > > On Tue, 2018-07-31 at 08:29:33 +0800, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: > > And yeah, I also kind of understand gcc's upstream position, that if > > you unconditionally embed all build flags into your re

Re: RFC: dpkg patch to using -ffile-prefix-map

2018-07-30 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On 2018-07-31, Guillem Jover wrote: > On Tue, 2018-07-31 at 08:29:33 +0800, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: >> I've got a dpkg patch which makes use of -ffile-prefix-map. I haven't >> found a good test case yet... package that fails to build reproducibly >> due to using __FILE__, __BASE_FILE__, or __built

Re: RFC: dpkg patch to using -ffile-prefix-map

2018-07-30 Thread Chris Lamb
Hi Guillem, > Also AIUI this divergence and the lack of forward porting is the > reason the repro buildds are currently stopped? (Indeed — see https://reproducible-builds.org/blog/posts/170/, 4th paragraph…) > From my side, I see no problem with merging something like the > attached patch if it

Re: RFC: dpkg patch to using -ffile-prefix-map

2018-07-30 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi! On Tue, 2018-07-31 at 08:29:33 +0800, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: > With gcc 8 being the default compiler in debian now, we should be able > to use -ffile-prefix-map, which should handle *some* of the cases that > BUILD_PATH_PREFIX_MAP is intended to solve. It definitely won't help > with things

RFC: dpkg patch to using -ffile-prefix-map

2018-07-30 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
With gcc 8 being the default compiler in debian now, we should be able to use -ffile-prefix-map, which should handle *some* of the cases that BUILD_PATH_PREFIX_MAP is intended to solve. It definitely won't help with things that embed the gcc commandline into arguments. But since we've been unable

Re: Heads-up: New upstream version of src:file in experimental

2018-07-30 Thread Mattia Rizzolo
Hi Christoph! On Thu, Jul 26, 2018 at 08:37:58AM +0200, Christoph Biedl wrote: > after a somewhat bumpy experience following the upload of the previous > upstream release of file (5.33), I eventually decided to introduce a > release procedure for src:file in Debian: New upstream release uploads >

Re: Please review the draft for week 170's blog post

2018-07-30 Thread Chris Lamb
Chris Lamb wrote: > Please review the draft for week 170's blog post [..] This has now been published; many thanks to all who contributed! Please share the following URL: https://reproducible-builds.org/blog/posts/170/ Alternatively, if you are into that kind of thing, please consider retwee