Revised patch: seeking seconds

[Stuart Prescott]

On Sunday, 13 August 2017 06:23:15 AEST Mattia Rizzolo wrote:
> On Sun, 13 Aug 2017, 6:15 a.m. Stuart Prescott, <stuart at debian.org> wrote:
> > Policy is not a stick but policy can document where we want to be,
> > particularly when we are talking about standard practice. It is already
> > standard practice that packages build reproducibly with things like build-
> > path variation -- we have upwards of 80% of the archive doing that.
> 
> I want to remember to you all that said ~80% is achieved only through a
> patched dpkg and GCC.  At the very least a specifically patched compiler
> with a patch still in heated discussion upstream for integration should not
> be required, before considering build paths such important thing to require
> reproducibility despite it.

That is indeed an important detail that I had forgotten.

thanks,
Stuart

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