Reproducible Builds for recent Debian security updates

[Salvatore Bonaccorso]

Hi,

On Sat, Mar 30, 2024 at 03:05:03PM -0700, Vagrant Cascadian wrote:
> On 2024-03-30, Salvatore Bonaccorso wrote:
> > On Fri, Mar 29, 2024 at 07:38:35PM -0700, Vagrant Cascadian wrote:
> >> Philipp Kern asked about trying to do reproducible builds checks for
> >> recent security updates to try to gain confidence about Debian's buildd
> >> infrastructure, given that they run builds in sid chroots which may have
> >> used or built or run a vulnerable xz-utils...
> ...
> > Thanks a lot for doing this verification work!
> 
> It is such an obvious application for Reproducible Builds that many
> people have worked on for many years. So... I daresay, my pleasure and
> honor. :)
> 
> 
> > There would be an upcoming (or actually postponed) util-linux update
> > as well. Could you as extra paranoia please verify these here as well
> > (I assume its enough for you that the source package is signed, I
> > stripped the signature from the changes):
> >
> > https://people.debian.org/~carnil/tmp/util-linux/
> 
> I don't see any source packages there, just .deb .changes and signed
> .buildinfo files! The signed .buildinfo files are great, but would
> definitely need the source code ... looks like the util-linux changes
> are in a git branch, but a signed .dsc would be nice just to be sure I
> am testing the same thing. That said, testing from git and getting
> bit-for-bit identical results ... would be confidence inspiring!
> Hmmm. Might just go for it, and if we have issues, maybe try to dig up
> the .dsc? :)

Sorry that was my fault obviously. The orig,tar.xz debian.tar.xz and
dsc files are now there as well.

Regards,
Salvatore