Notes for navarp - reproducible builds result

Version annotated: 1.0.0-2
Identified issues:
Identifier: diffoscope_runs_forever
URL https://reproducible.debian.net/index_breakages.html
Description Some packages cannot be analysed by diffoscope due to it running "forever".
Currently the diffoscope process is killed after 120 minutes.
https://reproducible.debian.net/index_breakages.html collects a list of currently
undiffable packages (as well as other issues with tests.reproducile-builds.org.
Identifier: blacklisted_on_jenkins
Description Some packages have been blacklisted in our test infrastructure because
their build hangs, takes too long, spawns processes that are not killed, or
simply because they use too many resources for our current capacity. (This
is purely practical step - we would like to test these packages.)
Identifier: randomness_in_documentation_generated_by_sphinx
URL https://wiki.debian.org/ReproducibleBuilds/SphinxIssues
Description Sphinx might output references to memory addresses and generate a json index file
with entries in random order or with non-deterministic values (eg. searchindex.js).
See https://bugs.debian.org/822197 for memory address issue
.
searchindex.js needs sort_keys=True (jsonimpl.py) but the key values vary too.
Identifier: python_sphinx_gallery_adds_timing_to_output
URL https://bugs.debian.org/901307
Description Adds total running time to HTML and RST output. to HTML and RST output.
 

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