[Reproducible-builds] Ideas

[Stéphane Glondu]

>>     My ideal scenario is the following:
>>
>>      1. I retrieve the .changes file for a package.
> 
> From where would you retrieve the .changes files for a given package,
> for instance bash_4.2+dfsg-0.1_amd64.changes (as one would expect for
> wheezy)?

The .changes files can be found anyway in debian-devel-changes archives
and on the PTS (for sourceful uploads, for example, [1]) or in build
logs (for binary uploads).

[1] http://packages.qa.debian.org/b/bash/news/20130101T024734Z.html

I've always wondered why they are not in the archive itself, though.


Cheers,

-- 
Stéphane