Background: Software repositories provide large amount of data encompassing software
changes throughout its evolution. Those repositories can be effectively used to extract and …

Packaging software into containers is becoming a common practice when deploying
services in cloud and other environments. Docker images are one of the most popular …

Container-based solutions, such as Docker, have become increasingly relevant in the
software industry to facilitate deploying and maintaining software systems. Little is known …

Context A reproducible build occurs if, given the same source code, build instructions, and
build environment (ie, installed build dependencies), compiling a software project …

Determining whether two or more packages cannot be installed together is an important
issue in the quality assurance process of package-based distributions. Unfortunately, the …

The widespread adoption of Free/Libre and Open Source Software (FLOSS) means that the
ongoing maintenance of many widely used software components relies on the collaborative …

The establishment of the Mining Software Repositories (MSR) data showcase conference
track has encouraged researchers to provide data sets as a basis for further empirical …

The decompiler is one of the most common tools for examining executable binaries without
the corresponding source code. It transforms binaries into high-level code, reversing the …

Users and developers of software distributions are often confronted with installation
problems due to conflicting packages. A prototypical example of this are the Linux …

Abstract We present the Debsources Dataset: source code and related metadata spanning
two decades of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) history, seen through the lens of the …