Bug#900918: debian-installer: Please make the generated images reproducible

Chris Lamb lamby at debian.org
Tue Jan 22 12:00:06 GMT 2019


Philipp,

> > > Alternatively, we could make pigz a strict build requirement but
> > > that sounds a little antisocial.
> >
> > Right.
>
> In what way do you consider this antisocial and what's speaking against
> doing that?

I was using this word in a somewhat romantic sense; fewer
dependencies are "better" in some aesthetic or poetic sense.

Please do not read too much into it. :)

(I had also slightly assumed that pigz was only on some archs, but
I am clearly mistaken there...)


Regards,

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