Hi Danilo, thank you for reaching out and sharing the news!
On Wed, Dec 30, 2020 at 04:58:31PM +0100, Danilo wrote: > Since a few days, the Threema messenger is open source and provides > reproducible builds for the Android app: > > https://threema.ch/en/open-source/reproducible-builds > > I was involved in that project (I work for Threema) and set up the > reproducible builds. So far these builds for the Android app seem to work > nicely, after we fixed an initial issue with an NDK Makefile that linked > object files in a non-deterministic way depending on the filesystem. that's pretty nice! How is version 4.5 coming along? And have you been in contact with the F-Droid folks about including it there? [...] > Are there any other examples of iOS apps providing reproducible builds? I > feel that an approach with a VM and requiring a jailbroken device results in > a process that is hard to reproduce, will break often and is an endless fight > against Apple who are trying to lock down their ecosystem. And if a process > is not reliable, then I don't think that it's of much value (since any > failure to reproduce a build can be attributed to the unreliability of the > build process itself). sadly I can just say that I agree with you. -- cheers, Holger ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ holger@(debian|reproducible-builds|layer-acht).org ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ PGP fingerprint: B8BF 5413 7B09 D35C F026 FE9D 091A B856 069A AA1C ⠈⠳⣄ „If you don't like vaccination, try the disease.“ (Herwig Kollaritsch)
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