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Debian must ship reproducible packages

91 pointsby robalnitoday at 5:26 AM18 commentsview on HN

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Zopieuxtoday at 8:16 AM

A great milestone, congrats Debian on taking a stance and holding high standards for yourself, especially in the current era.

jaypatelanitoday at 7:28 AM

Good thing. NetBSD has fully reproductible build since 2017. https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/netbsd_fully_reproducible_...

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shevy-javatoday at 6:53 AM

A small step for debian,

giant leap for mankind.

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kkfxtoday at 7:43 AM

Debian, like any other legacy distro, mush became declarative, because the '80s model of manual deploy and the absurd pain of D/I and Preseed must end.

blueflowtoday at 6:17 AM

zero improvement on end-user experience. does not solve supply chain issues, debian package will reproducabily contain the malware from upstream.

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