Ximin Luo

Recently we completed a tool (debcargo) to automatically convert Rust crates to Debian packages. The tool focuses on making long-term maintenance easier - in the vast majority of cases a maintainer only has to maintain two files (d/copyright, d/changelog) in git and everything else is automatically generated. Most crates take about 2-5 minutes to package, build and upload. Over the past month or so we have already uploaded about 100 Rust packages, and have more on the way. The limiting factor has been the speed of the NEW queue. This BoF will go over the whole end-to-end process of packaging Rust crates, and hopefully get some of you on board helping with the Debian Rust team.

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Other people: Vagrant Cascadian Valerie Young

This workshop will give a hands-on look at the tools that we use at the Reproducible Builds project to analyze build products and make them more reproducible. We'll go through how to use tools like diffoscope and reprotest, and give a few exercises for participants to try out. Then we'll do a brief tour of the Debian reproducibility toolchain, pointing out things like SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH and strip-nondeterminism. Finally, we'll pick out an unreproducible package from Debian unstable and apply what we've learned to try to make it reproducible.

Bring a laptop and a project you want to make reproducible, including its build dependencies. We'll install diffoscope and reprotest during the session, but if you're not on a Debian system then you're welcome to test that these programs work on your OS beforehand and submit bugs if they don't.

Other people: Vagrant Cascadian Valerie Young