On Fri 2016-07-22 17:31:15 -0400, Russ Allbery wrote: > I do think we should support reproducible builds for all packages, and > that our default build should be reproducible. I'm just not sure that we > should rule out allowing packages to be configured to use default upstream > behavior for timestamps and whatnot, if it's not the default.
fwiw, i would love debian to reach a state where a non-reproduciblity is an RC bug. I know this seems radical, but there are other things (like embedded rpath) where we do regularly patch out upstream defaults because debian makes more sense otherwise. --dkg