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Notes about issue timestamps_in_static_libraries in bookworm

Identifier: timestamps_in_static_libraries
Suites: unstable / trixie / bookworm / bullseye / experimental
URL: https://wiki.debian.org/ReproducibleBuilds/TimestampsInStaticLibraries
Description: .a files are ar archives. Since binutils 2.25-6 they should be deterministic
by default, but there are some remaining buggy corner cases - see
bug #843210 for example if the package uses binutils-multiarch.
(#843210 has been fixed in sid now, hopefully this issue becomes moot now.)
.
#978494 filed with patch for binutils-arm-none-eabi.
#996184 filed with patch for bintuils-or1k-elf.
.
Other tools that create ar archives directly should in theory be covered by
strip-nondeterminism, but it is still good to patch them.
Packages in 'bookworm' known to be affected by this issue:
(the 1/4 most-popular ones (within this issue) are underlined)

FTBFS icon 1 FTBFS packages in bookworm/amd64: gcc-bpf

FTBR icon 2 unreproducible packages in bookworm/amd64: gcc-avr linux86

 

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