"Packages that can't be rebuilt byte-for-byte are now blocked from entering Debian's testing branch."
https://itsfoss.com/news/debian-makes-reproducible-builds-mandatory/
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@bagder Wow, that's awesome! Does anyone know if Ubuntu also will force reproducible builds considering that Ubuntu is based on Debian?
Does this mean derivatives like Devuan automatically do this too?
@bagder this is also what fdroid does on Android i i think
@bagder it’s been 3 days and your post is still trending… what a great motto.”
Sick! Is Debian the first major distro making this a hard requirement? Haven't heard of any others.
#nixos is somewhat of pioneer in the space of reproducible builds and is 20 years old
@gonzo_askold @orpach.neocities.org sure, but nix has still included packages that not in themselves were done reproducible I'm pretty sure.
I'm not that knowledgeable about inside workings, but in theory (in my head) hashing all inputs does equate to byte-to-byte reproducibility, even if previous steps in the build process weren't written specifically to be reproduced
