LibreOffice success story

[Pol Dellaiera]

@Bernhard: Congratulations! Massive achievement.

@Holger: I'm also using Diffoscope with Nix/NixOS when something goes wrong, so yeah that useful tool is used outside Debian!

Keep up the good work :)

On 11/7/23 10:11, Bernhard M. Wiedemann via rb-general wrote:
> Dear fellow R-B-ings
> 
> Just 2 weeks ago, when I re-reviewed the remaining ~120 major issues in openSUSE, I pretty much skipped over LibreOffice (and only this one), noting it down as "various issues", because some years ago, when I had previously taken a closer look, there had been so many issues in files of various formats and additionally the build of that large package took hours, so that I had quickly stopped debugging and left it "for later".
> 
> Then on the r-b-summit I met Thorsten from LibreOffice upstream and together we reviewed the old diff I had from 2022 [1]. We noticed that there was an issue with docs, but I had recently made
> https://code.opensuse.org/package/doxygen/blob/master/f/reproducible.patch
> that turned out to solve this exact issue. It still needs upstreaming.
> 
> There was a timestamp-issue from long-orphaned clucene and we found 3 others that Thorsten quickly fixed:
> https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/q/topic:reprobuild
> 
> Now there were only mtimes left in .jar and .zip files that were easily normalized with strip-nondeterminism.
> 
> So today I hold in my hands the first two bit-identical LibreOffice rpm packages.
> And this is the success I wanted to share with you all today.
> 
> It makes me feel as if we can solve anything.
> 
> Ciao
> Bernhard M.
> 
> 
> [1] https://rb.zq1.de/compare.factory-20230109/diffs/libreoffice-compare.out

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