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<span>by Daniel Shahaf</span>
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<pre class="commit-message" style="white-space: pre-wrap; margin: 0;">2021-03: Fix a grammar issue.
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<pre class="commit-message" style="white-space: pre-wrap; margin: 0;">2021-03: Describe the issue more concretely.
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<pre style="margin: 0;">-<span id="LC49" class="line" lang="markdown">When building Debian packages, <span class="sb" style="color: #d14;">`dpkg`</span> currently passes options to the underlying build system to<span class="idiff left">,</span>strip<span class="idiff">ping</span> out the build path from generated binaries. However, many binaries still end up including the build path because they embed the entire compiler command-line which includes, ironically, the very flags <span class="idiff right">designed to prevent that occurring</span>. Vagrant Cascadian therefore <span class="p">[</span><span class="nv" style="color: #008080;">filed a bug against the Debian `dpkg` package</span><span class="p">](</span><span class="sx" style="color: #d14;">https://bugs.debian.org/985553</span><span class="p">)</span> to use <span class="p">[</span><span class="nv" style="color: #008080;">GCC</span><span class="p">](</span><span class="sx" style="color: #d14;">https://gcc.gnu.org/</span><span class="p">)</span>'s <span class="sb" style="color: #d14;">`.spec`</span> files to specify the <span class="sb" style="color: #d14;">`fixfilepath`</span> and <span class="sb" style="color: #d14;">`fixdebugpath`</span> options. This supplies the build path to GCC via the <span class="sb" style="color: #d14;">`DEB_BUILD_PATH`</span> environment variable, thus avoid passing the path on the command-line itself. Related to this, it was noticed that <span class="p">[</span><span class="nv" style="color: #008080;">Debian unstable reached 85% reproducibility</span><span class="p">](</span><span class="sx" style="color: #d14;">https://tests.reproducible-builds.org/debian/unstable/index_suite_amd64_stats.html</span><span class="p">)</span> for the first time since enabling variations in the build path.</span>
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<pre style="margin: 0;">+<span id="LC49" class="line" lang="markdown">When building Debian packages, <span class="sb" style="color: #d14;">`dpkg`</span> currently passes options to the underlying build system to<span class="idiff left"> </span>strip out the build path from generated binaries. However, many binaries still end up including the build path because they embed the entire compiler command-line which includes, ironically, the very flags <span class="idiff right">that specify the build path to facilitate stripping it out</span>. Vagrant Cascadian therefore <span class="p">[</span><span class="nv" style="color: #008080;">filed a bug against the Debian `dpkg` package</span><span class="p">](</span><span class="sx" style="color: #d14;">https://bugs.debian.org/985553</span><span class="p">)</span> to use <span class="p">[</span><span class="nv" style="color: #008080;">GCC</span><span class="p">](</span><span class="sx" style="color: #d14;">https://gcc.gnu.org/</span><span class="p">)</span>'s <span class="sb" style="color: #d14;">`.spec`</span> files to specify the <span class="sb" style="color: #d14;">`fixfilepath`</span> and <span class="sb" style="color: #d14;">`fixdebugpath`</span> options. This supplies the build path to GCC via the <span class="sb" style="color: #d14;">`DEB_BUILD_PATH`</span> environment variable, thus avoid passing the path on the command-line itself. Related to this, it was noticed that <span class="p">[</span><span class="nv" style="color: #008080;">Debian unstable reached 85% reproducibility</span><span class="p">](</span><span class="sx" style="color: #d14;">https://tests.reproducible-builds.org/debian/unstable/index_suite_amd64_stats.html</span><span class="p">)</span> for the first time since enabling variations in the build path.</span>
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<pre style="margin: 0;"> <span id="LC51" class="line" lang="markdown">Frédéric Pierret has been working on a partial copy of the <span class="p">[</span><span class="nv" style="color: #008080;">`snapshot.debian.org`</span><span class="p">](</span><span class="sx" style="color: #d14;">https://snapshot.debian.org/</span><span class="p">)</span> "wayback machine" service limited solely to the packages needed to rebuild Debian <span class="ge" style="font-style: italic;">*bullseye*</span> on the <span class="sb" style="color: #d14;">`amd64`</span> architecture. This is to workaround the bandwidth and other perceived limitations of <span class="sb" style="color: #d14;">`snapshot.debian.org`</span>. Whilst the mirror itself is reachable at <span class="p">[</span><span class="nv" style="color: #008080;">`debian.notset.fr`</span><span class="p">](</span><span class="sx" style="color: #d14;">https://debian.notset.fr/snapshot/</span><span class="p">)</span>, the software for creating that partial mirror <span class="p">[</span><span class="nv" style="color: #008080;">is available in Frédéric's Git repository</span><span class="p">](</span><span class="sx" style="color: #d14;">https://github.com/fepitre/snapshot-mirror</span><span class="p">)</span>. Currently, Frédéric's service has mirrored 4 months in 2 weeks, but needs approximately 3-5 years of content in order to fully rebuild <span class="ge" style="font-style: italic;">*bullseye*</span>. To that end, <span class="p">[</span><span class="nv" style="color: #008080;">a request was made to the Debian system administrators</span><span class="p">](</span><span class="sx" style="color: #d14;">https://rt.debian.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=8547</span><span class="p">)</span>) to obtain better access to <span class="sb" style="color: #d14;">`snapshot.debian.org`</span> for this mirror in order to accelerate the initial seeding.</span>
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