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* There was yet more progress towards making the [Debian Installer](https://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/) images reproducible. Following-on from last week, [Chris Lamb](https://chris-lamb.co.uk/) performed some further testing of the generated images resulting in two patches to ensure that builds were reproducible regardless of both the user's `umask(2)` (filed as [#920631](https://bugs.debian.org/920631)) and even the underlying ordering of files on disk ([#920676](https://bugs.debian.org/920676)). It is hoped these can be merged for the next Debian Installer alpha/beta after the [recent "Alpha 5" release](https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2019/02/msg00000.html).
* [Tails](https://tails.boum.org/) released its first USB image, which is reproducible.
* [Tails](https://tails.boum.org/), the privacy-oriented "live" operating system [released its first USB image](https://tails.boum.org/news/version_3.12/index.en.html), which is reproducible.
* Chris Lamb implemented a check in the [Lintian](https://lintian.debian.org/) static analysis tool that performs automated checks against Debian packages in order to add a check for `.sass-cache` directories. As as they contain non-deterministic subdirectories they immediately contribute towards an unreproducible build ([#920593](https://bugs.debian.org/920593)).
* `disorderfs` is our [FUSE](https://github.com/libfuse/libfuse)-based filesystem that deliberately introduces non-determinism into filesystems for easy and reliable testing. Chris Lamb fixed an issue this week in the handling of the `fsyncdir` system call to ensure `dpkg(1)` can "flush" `/var/lib/dpkg` correctly [[...](https://salsa.debian.org/reproducible-builds/disorderfs/commit/bd35aeb)].
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This week's edition was written by Bernhard M. Wiedemann, Chris Lamb & reviewed by a bunch of Reproducible Builds folks on IRC & the mailing lists.
This week's edition was written by Bernhard M. Wiedemann, Chris Lamb, intrigeri & reviewed by a bunch of Reproducible Builds folks on IRC & the mailing lists.