Bug#862112: #862112: r-base-dev: Generate reproducible output independently of the build path

[Holger Levsen]

On Mon, Oct 19, 2026 at 01:28:05PM -0500, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
> It took a jolly few years, and some assistance from upstream, friends, and
> even LLMs but we got to. r-base 4.6.1-9, the current build of the the current
> upstream, builds reproducibly.

yay!

> I will over the next few weeks unsure this gets into upstream in a way that
> is not-Debian dependent so by R 4.7.0 next April it will (at long last) build
> reproducibly everywhere.

very nice & thanks for the good news!


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cheers,
	Holger

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