Please review the draft for April's report

[Manuel Jacob]

On 07/05/2026 19.04, Manuel Jacob wrote:
> On 05/05/2026 21.20, Chris Lamb wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Please review the draft for April's Reproducible Builds report:
>>
>>    https://reproducible-builds.org/reports/2026-04/?draft
>>
>> … or, via the Git repository itself:
>>
>>    https://salsa.debian.org/reproducible-builds/reproducible-website/ 
>> blob/master/_reports/2026-04.md
> 
> Hi Chris,
> 
> I am a bit confused that https://reproducible-builds.org/ 
> reports/2026-04/?draft#upstream-patches mostly contains what I would 
> call downstream patches to the Debian package. For most of the patches, 
> I couldn’t find that they were submitted upstream. What about renaming 
> the section to just “Patches”?

To clarify, some of the linked patches add patches against upstream 
code, so they could be called upstream patches (even if they are not 
submitted upstream), but some add only post-processing to the e.g. 
Debian package.

> Unrelated to the previous paragraph: The post lists some documentation 
> changes that I made which I wouldn’t have considered noteworthy, such as 
> changing the tense of the sentence or adding a missing word. My first 
> thought was that the summary might be automatically generated. 
> Regardless of this, do you think it’s important to list all changes or 
> should I remove some minor changes listed in the post?
> 
> Thanks,
> Manuel