On Wed, Aug 16, 2017 at 12:14:53PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > If you have specific wording suggestions that you believe would bring this > Policy requirement closer in line with what we're already doing in the > project (and which has gotten us to 94% reproducible already), please make > them.
This percentage was reached mostly by fixing software tools (compiler, doc generators, packaging tools) to be deterministic, rather than by fixing individual packages. This is a topic that is wholy absent from policy. For example policy could mandate that programs that set timestamps honour SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH. Cheers, -- Bill. <ballo...@debian.org> Imagine a large red swirl here.