Re: [OE-core][master][PATCH v2] groff: upgrade 1.23.0 -> 1.24.0

[Zhang Peng <peng.zhang1.cn@windriver.com>]

On 3/11/26 14:03, Mathieu Dubois-Briand wrote:
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> On Mon Mar 9, 2026 at 4:08 PM CET, Peng (Paul) (CN) via lists.openembedded.org Zhang wrote:
>> From: Zhang Peng <peng.zhang1.cn@windriver.com>
>>
>> Upgrade to latest revision of 1.24.0.
>> - Drop patches included in this release.
>> - Add patch to fix test-groff not found in cross-compilation.
>> - Add patch to use SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH in gropdf for reproducible PDF generation.
>> - COPYING, LICENSES: Refresh GPLv3 text.
>>
>> Release Note:[https://lists.gnu.org/r/groff/2026-02/msg00149.html]
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Zhang Peng <peng.zhang1.cn@windriver.com>
> Hi,
>
> Thanks for the new version. It looks a bit better, reproducibility test
> passed at least once, but we still have failures in some builds. It
> seems to be a similar one:
>
> AssertionError: The following deb packages are different and not in exclusion list:
> /srv/pokybuild/yocto-worker/reproducible/build/build-st/reproducibleB-extended/tmp/deploy/deb/./x86-64-v3/groff-doc_1.24.0-r0_amd64.deb
> The following rpm packages are different and not in exclusion list:
> /srv/pokybuild/yocto-worker/reproducible/build/build-st/reproducibleB-extended/tmp/deploy/rpm/./x86_64_v3/groff-doc-1.24.0-r0.x86_64_v3.rpm
>
> https://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/valkyrie/#/builders/37/builds/3554
>
> Diffoscope output:
> https://valkyrie.yocto.io/pub/repro-fail/oe-reproducible-20260310-jxtz43x1/packages/diff-html/

HI, Mathieu

It's very strange - I cannot reproduce this issue on my local Ubuntu 
22.04 system. From the Yocto autobuilder system logs, I can't find any 
useful hints to analyze the failure.
My suspicion is related to the host environment. The autobuilder uses 
Fedora 40 while I'm testing on Ubuntu, but I don't think this difference 
should cause the failure.
Any help or insights on this would be greatly appreciated.


Logs from my site:

2026-03-11 20:48:01,918 - oe-selftest - INFO - Adding: "include 
selftest.inc" in 
/buildarea2/project/poky-latest/groff-repo/bitbake-builds/poky-master/build-st/conf/local.conf
2026-03-11 20:48:01,918 - oe-selftest - INFO - Adding: "include 
bblayers.inc" in bblayers.conf
2026-03-11 20:48:01,918 - oe-selftest - INFO - test_reproducible_builds 
(reproducible.ReproducibleTests)
2026-03-11 21:03:11,734 - oe-selftest - INFO - Building reproducibleA 
(sstate allowed)...
2026-03-11 21:17:05,330 - oe-selftest - INFO - Building prebuild for 
reproducibleB-extended (sstate allowed)...
2026-03-11 21:29:33,140 - oe-selftest - INFO - Building 
reproducibleB-extended (sstate NOT allowed)...
2026-03-11 21:33:26,758 - oe-selftest - INFO - Checking deb packages for 
differences...
2026-03-11 21:33:26,897 - oe-selftest - INFO - Reproducibility summary 
for deb: same=866 different=0 different_excluded=0 missing=153 total=1019
unused_exclusions=[]
2026-03-11 21:33:26,898 - oe-selftest - INFO - Checking ipk packages for 
differences...
2026-03-11 21:33:27,024 - oe-selftest - INFO - Reproducibility summary 
for ipk: same=866 different=0 different_excluded=0 missing=153 total=1019
unused_exclusions=[]
2026-03-11 21:33:27,025 - oe-selftest - INFO - Checking rpm packages for 
differences...
2026-03-11 21:33:27,158 - oe-selftest - INFO - Reproducibility summary 
for rpm: same=866 different=0 different_excluded=0 missing=153 total=1019
unused_exclusions=[]
2026-03-11 21:33:27,159 - oe-selftest - INFO -  ... ok
2026-03-11 21:34:10,657 - oe-selftest - INFO - 
----------------------------------------------------------------------
2026-03-11 21:34:10,657 - oe-selftest - INFO - Ran 1 test in 2768.831s
2026-03-11 21:34:10,657 - oe-selftest - INFO - OK
2026-03-11 21:34:15,023 - oe-selftest - INFO - RESULTS:
2026-03-11 21:34:15,023 - oe-selftest - INFO - RESULTS - 
reproducible.ReproducibleTests.test_reproducible_builds: PASSED (2725.24s)
2026-03-11 21:34:15,025 - oe-selftest - INFO - SUMMARY:
2026-03-11 21:34:15,025 - oe-selftest - INFO - oe-selftest () - Ran 1 
test in 2768.831s
2026-03-11 21:34:15,025 - oe-selftest - INFO - oe-selftest - OK - All 
required tests passed (successes=1, skipped=0, failures=0, errors=0)

 > rg -C2 groff ./tmp/log/oeqa/testresults.json
205-      ],
206-      "same": [
207:       "x86-64-v3/groff-dbg_1.24.0-r0_amd64.deb",
208:       "x86-64-v3/groff-dev_1.24.0-r0_amd64.deb",
209:       "x86-64-v3/groff-doc_1.24.0-r0_amd64.deb",
210:       "x86-64-v3/groff-src_1.24.0-r0_amd64.deb",
211:       "x86-64-v3/groff_1.24.0-r0_amd64.deb",
212-       "x86-64-v3/perl-dbg_5.42.0-r0_amd64.deb",
213-       "x86-64-v3/perl-dev_5.42.0-r0_amd64.deb",
--
1232-      ],
1233-      "same": [
1234:       "x86-64-v3/groff-dbg_1.24.0-r0_x86-64-v3.ipk",
1235:       "x86-64-v3/groff-dev_1.24.0-r0_x86-64-v3.ipk",
1236:       "x86-64-v3/groff-doc_1.24.0-r0_x86-64-v3.ipk",
1237:       "x86-64-v3/groff-src_1.24.0-r0_x86-64-v3.ipk",
1238:       "x86-64-v3/groff_1.24.0-r0_x86-64-v3.ipk",
1239-       "x86-64-v3/perl-dbg_5.42.0-r0_x86-64-v3.ipk",
1240-       "x86-64-v3/perl-dev_5.42.0-r0_x86-64-v3.ipk",
--
2259-      ],
2260-      "same": [
2261:       "x86_64_v3/groff-1.24.0-r0.x86_64_v3.rpm",
2262:       "x86_64_v3/groff-dbg-1.24.0-r0.x86_64_v3.rpm",
2263:       "x86_64_v3/groff-dev-1.24.0-r0.x86_64_v3.rpm",
2264:       "x86_64_v3/groff-doc-1.24.0-r0.x86_64_v3.rpm",
2265:       "x86_64_v3/groff-src-1.24.0-r0.x86_64_v3.rpm",
2266-       "x86_64_v3/perl-5.42.0-r0.x86_64_v3.rpm",
2267-       "x86_64_v3/perl-dbg-5.42.0-r0.x86_64_v3.rpm",

//Peng

>
> Thanks,
> Mathieu
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