Reproducible NetBeans

[Emilian Bold]

Hello,

I knew about reproducible-builds.org but I had no idea you are
building NetBeans too
https://tests.reproducible-builds.org/debian/rb-pkg/stretch/amd64/netbeans.html

Which seems to be failing at the moment.

I've also looked into reproducible builds for Apache NetBeans a while
back and have a draft patch prepared for when we start doing builds
under Apache (see
https://github.com/emilianbold/reproducible-nextbeans/commits/master )

So, do you need any help? Do you have patches I could integrate upstream?

I'm looking at https://sources.debian.net/src/netbeans/8.1%2Bdfsg3-2/debian/patches/reproducible-build.patch/
and the reproducible patch is very small.

I assume you also apply strip-nondeterminism on the output archives?

I would also appreciate a quickstart on getting the Debian
reproducible build environment setup on a machine so I can test it
myself.

--emi