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Bug#940234: debian-policy: add a section about source reproducibility



On Sat, Sep 14, 2019 at 11:57:43PM +0200, Guillem Jover wrote:
> > >> I haven't checked how many packages do not fulfill this condition
> > > please do check. last (and only) time we (=r-b) looked, it wasn't
> > > practical at all. this was around 5 years ago, but I don't remember any
> > > work done on improving this.
> Back when we were fixing the binary package reproducible problems
> within dpkg, I also checked the source side, and fixed a few
> problematic cases. Assuming the same tools installed as defined in
> the .buildinfo file, and the same content in the unpacked source
> tree, dpkg-source should be producing the same output source packages.

oh, cool, thanks for this spreading this information!

> If this does not hold, I'd consider it a bug to be fixed.

great!

so now someone just needs to do something^wa rebuild of say 1000 source
packages and share the stats...


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cheers,
	Holger

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