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From: =?utf-8?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=C3=B8rgrav?= <des@des.no>
To: Garrett Wollman <wollman@bimajority.org>
Subject: Re: Strange package checksum report
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Garrett Wollman <wollman@bimajority.org> writes:
> Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav <des@des.no> writes:
> > These are Pyhon bytecode files. They are automatically regenerated if
> > you have write access to them and Python thinks they are stale when it
> > tries to load them.  Apparently, Python's definition of "stale" is
> > slightly more complex than just comparing timestamps; they are one of
> > the reasons why Baptiste gave up reproducible package builds.
> That's unfortunate.

Well, it's a bug.

I assume that you're using official packages and don't have a locally
compiled Python interpreter or anything like that?

Could you perhaps turn on auditing in order to find out what's touching
these files?

DES
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Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav - des@des.no