❦ 24 août 2015 21:12 +0100, Colin Tuckley <colint@debian.org> :
>> Well, I object strongly.
>
> Same here, in my view reproducibility is a 'nice to have' it should
> *never* be forced on a package.
>
> We are in the business of packaging upstream software for
> distribution. We should not make arbitrary changes to upstream
> software, such as changing the way a date is added to a man page, just
> to make the build reproducible.
We have pushed other archive-wide goals that were not shared by all
upstreams. For example, we have enabled hardening build flags on almost
all packages and for packages that don't obey to the appropriate flags,
bugs with severity "important" were filed. That's not that different of a
reproducible build.
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