Bug#844431: Revised patch: seeking seconds
Ximin Luo <infinity0@debian.org> writes:
> To echo dkg and others' comments, it would be nice if we could add here:
> +Packages are encouraged to produce bit-for-bit identical binary packages even
> +if most environment variables and build paths are varied. This is technically
> +more difficult at the time of writing, but it is intended that this stricter
> +definition would replace the above one, when appropriate in the future.
> If this type of "intent" wording is not appropriate for Policy then
> disregard what I'm saying, I don't wish to block this patch for this
> reason.
Oh, that's a good way to capture that. This seems fine to me, and I have
no objections to adding this advice. Seconded the original with or
without this addition.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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