On 2019-03-01, Daniel Shahaf wrote: > David A. Wheeler wrote on Fri, 01 Mar 2019 23:01 +00:00: >> The *majority* (54%) of packages in real-world Debian Buster are now >> reproducible!! > > (Just to be clear, that's the figure for binary packages. I don't know > if the figure for source packages is higher or lower.)
Certainly lower; there are a number of source packages which produce several binary packages, of which only some of the binary packages have reproducibilitiy issues. For example, there are issues with some of the toolchains used to produce PDF documentation that only effect packages that ship PDFs. So if you're measuring from source packages, any of the produced binary packages could make the whole source package "unreproducible". The ~93% reproducible in theory is from the lens of a source package, and the ~54% binary packages, so in a sense, it is sort of comparing apples to oranges. There are also caveats in the method used thus far, trusting that uploaders of .buildinfo files to be acting in good faith and buildinfo.debian.net is returning valid data. Pretty sure I saw some TODO items to address those aspects somewhere. All that aside, it's still really great work, and a useful comparison! Thanks for taking an off-the-cuff idea and turning it into something more comprehensive, Holger! :) live well, vagrant
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