<div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Sun, 13 Aug 2017, 6:15 a.m. Stuart Prescott, <<a href="mailto:stuart@debian.org">stuart@debian.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Policy is not a stick but policy can document where we want to be,<br>
particularly when we are talking about standard practice. It is already<br>
standard practice that packages build reproducibly with things like build-<br>
path variation -- we have upwards of 80% of the archive doing that.<br></blockquote></div><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>(Not commenting on the other parts of the mail, but good points there)</div>