Hi. Chris Lamb <la...@debian.org> writes:
> Hi -devel, > > The reproducible-builds team are currently contributing patches with > "wishlist" severity. > > This is because it is not currently possible to build reproducible > packages within sid itself - we maintain a separate repository whilst > our changes to the toolchain are pending review and consultation. > > Filing these bugs with a higher severity -- which would require > developers to use this repository to fully test any modifications -- > would be unacceptable. > > However, based on an informal survey at DebConf (and to reflect the > feeling towards software reproducibility in the free software community > in general) unless there are strong objections I intend to raise the > severity of these wishlist issues to "important" once the toolchain > changes to dpkg and debhelper land in sid. > For the records, I guess the recording of the conference [0] about reproducibility at Debconf 15 should be a must watch : http://meetings-archive.debian.net/pub/debian-meetings/2015/debconf15/Stretching_out_for_trustworthy_reproducible_builds_creating_bit_by_bit_identical_binaries.webm My 2 cents, Best regards, P.S.: many thanks for this important work ! [0] https://summit.debconf.org/debconf15/meeting/353/stretching-out-for-trustworthy-reproducible-builds-creating-bit-by-bit-identical-binaries/ -- Olivier BERGER http://www-public.telecom-sudparis.eu/~berger_o/ - OpenPGP-Id: 2048R/5819D7E8 Ingenieur Recherche - Dept INF Institut Mines-Telecom, Telecom SudParis, Evry (France)
