• Debian to require reproducible builds

    From LWN.net@618:250/24 to All on Tue May 12 06:40:09 2026
    Paul Gevers has slipped an interesting bit of news into a "bits from the release
    team" message:

    Aided by the efforts of the Reproducible Builds project, we've
    decided it's time to say that Debian must ship reproducible
    packages. Since yesterday, we have enabled our migration software
    to block migration of new packages that can't be reproduced or
    existing packages (in testing) that regress in reproducibility.

    As Gioele Barabucci pointed
    out, "reproducible" in this sense is limited to building within an
    instance of Debian's build environment, which is a tighter requirement than
    is normally used. It is still a big step forward for reproducible builds.

    https://lwn.net/Articles/1072314/
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