Bug#1126440: Help with libsoup reproducibility

[Jeremy Bícha]

On Tue, Oct 27, 2026 at 2:57 PM Jochen Sprickerhof <jspricke at debian.org> wrote:
> To be clear, systemd is not run during a normal build in sbuild so that
> can't be an argument here. Also debrebuild (and thus reproduce.d.n)
> support /run just fine, just that the content can be different.
> Also note that I am only aware of two packages, gnome-settings-daemon
> and libsoup depending on state in /run so I think it is a good time to
> discuss it now. If we don't find a good solution in time we can just
> hint libsoup into testing (I did that for gnome-settings-daemon
> already).

I think we have enough information to fix libsoup, but I don't have
the available time to work on it this week. I think we'll patch
meson.build to give it the specific Apache details it needs. That
might be a Debian-specific patch.

Thank you,
Jeremy Bícha