Hi,
On 29/10/2018 02:45, David A. Wheeler wrote: > On Sun, 28 Oct 2018 17:42:58 -0700, Vagrant Cascadian <[email protected]> > wrote: >> And now I've found 88 binary packages! > That's spectacular, and is a big tribute to the hard work everyone here is > doing. > > I propose that the following go into the weekly announcements: > > * Vagrant Cascadian used a simple script and found that current Debian as > delivered, > 57% of the packages installed in a minimal system are verifiably > reproducible > (88 reproducible and 66 unreproducible). This is a major step forward, > as this is not a measure of special reproducible builds created "on the > side", but > of the actual "real world" Debian packages including corroborating > .buildinfo files. > > Does that capture things correctly? > > I'll try to add something like that in a little bit to the announcement file, > but I fear I'm stating something completely wrong. For the layman this 57% number sounds awfully low compared to other news (e.g. tails says their ISO is 100% reproducible https://tails.boum.org/contribute/reports/SponsorT/final/#index1h1 ; FreeBSD announces 90%-100% from https://reproducible-builds.org/events/berlin2016/2017lookahead/ ) I would skip the numbers or put them last in the news bit. Or mention our non-real-world (higher) reproducibility percentage as well, otherwise this is plain confusing, despite the TL;DR explaination that follows. Cheers! Sylvain _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list To change your subscription options, visit https://lists.reproducible-builds.org/listinfo/rb-general. To unsubscribe, send an email to [email protected].
