On Sunday, 13 August 2017 06:23:15 AEST Mattia Rizzolo wrote: > On Sun, 13 Aug 2017, 6:15 a.m. Stuart Prescott, <[email protected]> wrote: > > Policy is not a stick but policy can document where we want to be, > > particularly when we are talking about standard practice. It is already > > standard practice that packages build reproducibly with things like build- > > path variation -- we have upwards of 80% of the archive doing that. > > I want to remember to you all that said ~80% is achieved only through a > patched dpkg and GCC. At the very least a specifically patched compiler > with a patch still in heated discussion upstream for integration should not > be required, before considering build paths such important thing to require > reproducibility despite it.
That is indeed an important detail that I had forgotten. thanks, Stuart -- Stuart Prescott http://www.nanonanonano.net/ [email protected] Debian Developer http://www.debian.org/ [email protected] GPG fingerprint 90E2 D2C1 AD14 6A1B 7EBB 891D BBC1 7EBB 1396 F2F7 _______________________________________________ Reproducible-builds mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/reproducible-builds
