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<span>by Chris Lamb</span>
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<pre class="commit-message" style="white-space: pre-wrap; margin: 0;">197: Update AUTHORS.
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<pre class="commit-message" style="white-space: pre-wrap; margin: 0;">Expand the Tails entry a bit.
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<pre style="margin: 0;"> <span id="LC8" class="line" lang="markdown"><span class="p">*</span> There was yet more progress towards making the <span class="p">[</span><span class="nv" style="color: teal;">Debian Installer</span><span class="p">](</span><span class="sx" style="color: #d14;">https://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/</span><span class="p">)</span> images reproducible. Following-on from last week, <span class="p">[</span><span class="nv" style="color: teal;">Chris Lamb</span><span class="p">](</span><span class="sx" style="color: #d14;">https://chris-lamb.co.uk/</span><span class="p">)</span> performed some further testing of the generated images resulting in two patches to ensure that builds were reproducible regardless of both the user's <span class="sb" style="color: #d14;">`umask(2)`</span> (filed as <span class="p">[</span><span class="nv" style="color: teal;">#920631</span><span class="p">](</span><span class="sx" style="color: #d14;">https://bugs.debian.org/920631</span><span class="p">)</span>) and even the underlying ordering of files on disk (<span class="p">[</span><span class="nv" style="color: teal;">#920676</span><span class="p">](</span><span class="sx" style="color: #d14;">https://bugs.debian.org/920676</span><span class="p">)</span>). It is hoped these can be merged for the next Debian Installer alpha/beta after the <span class="p">[</span><span class="nv" style="color: teal;">recent "Alpha 5" release</span><span class="p">](</span><span class="sx" style="color: #d14;">https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2019/02/msg00000.html</span><span class="p">)</span>.</span>
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<pre style="margin: 0;">-<span id="LC10" class="line" lang="markdown"><span class="p">*</span> <span class="p">[</span><span class="nv" style="color: teal;">Tails</span><span class="p">](</span><span class="sx" style="color: #d14;">https://tails.boum.org/</span><span class="p">)</span><span class="idiff left right"> released its first USB image</span>, which is reproducible.</span>
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<pre style="margin: 0;">+<span id="LC10" class="line" lang="markdown"><span class="p">*</span> <span class="p">[</span><span class="nv" style="color: teal;">Tails</span><span class="p">](</span><span class="sx" style="color: #d14;">https://tails.boum.org/</span><span class="p">)</span><span class="idiff left">, the privacy-oriented "live" operating system </span><span class="p"><span class="idiff">[</span></span><span class="nv" style="color: teal;"><span class="idiff">released its first USB image</span></span><span class="p"><span class="idiff">](</span></span><span class="sx" style="color: #d14;"><span class="idiff">https://tails.boum.org/news/version_3.12/index.en.html</span></span><span class="p"><span class="idiff right">)</span></span>, which is reproducible.</span>
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<pre style="margin: 0;"> <span id="LC12" class="line" lang="markdown"><span class="p">*</span> Chris Lamb implemented a check in the <span class="p">[</span><span class="nv" style="color: teal;">Lintian</span><span class="p">](</span><span class="sx" style="color: #d14;">https://lintian.debian.org/</span><span class="p">)</span> static analysis tool that performs automated checks against Debian packages in order to add a check for <span class="sb" style="color: #d14;">`.sass-cache`</span> directories. As as they contain non-deterministic subdirectories they immediately contribute towards an unreproducible build (<span class="p">[</span><span class="nv" style="color: teal;">#920593</span><span class="p">](</span><span class="sx" style="color: #d14;">https://bugs.debian.org/920593</span><span class="p">)</span>).</span>
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<pre style="margin: 0;">-<span id="LC69" class="line" lang="markdown">This week's edition was written by Bernhard M. Wiedemann, Chris Lamb & reviewed by a bunch of Reproducible Builds folks on IRC & the mailing lists.</span></pre>
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