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Bug#844431: policy: packages should be reproducible



On Sun, May 14, 2017 at 04:51:47PM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote:
> > the official tool to build packages reproducible in sid is called
> > "dpkg-buildpackage" (since dpkg 1.18.16 in sid since 2016-12-17).
> So if your package builds with "dpkg-buildpackage" then the build is
> reproducible and any bug report to the contrary is in error ? 

almost. 93% of the packages in stretch today can be re-build bit by bit
identically. 

that's why we're now aiming at "packages should be reproducible" and not
for "must be reproducible"… (but plan to later aim for "must be").


-- 
cheers,
	Holger

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