[blog] 02/02: 78: rename section further and explain why .buildinfo files

Holger Levsen holger at layer-acht.org
Mon Oct 24 11:04:40 UTC 2016


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commit 3dd6cd314f2544a3b781429e39e582c1058aca06
Author: Holger Levsen <holger at layer-acht.org>
Date:   Mon Oct 24 13:04:36 2016 +0200

    78: rename section further and explain why .buildinfo files
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 drafts/78.mdwn | 8 +++++---
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drafts/78.mdwn b/drafts/78.mdwn
index 3af2a22..f2a6861 100644
--- a/drafts/78.mdwn
+++ b/drafts/78.mdwn
@@ -13,10 +13,12 @@ Upcoming events
 
 - Jürgen Rose will be giving a talk on [Enforcing reproducible builds with Eclipse Package Drone](https://www.eclipsecon.org/europe2016/session/enforcing-reproducible-builds-eclipse-package-drone) at EclipseCon Europe 2016 in Ludwigsburg, Germany on October 27th.
 
-A proof of concept: towards enabling everyone to rebuild everything
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+buildinfo.debian.net
+--------------------
 
-- Chris Lamb has started development on an [highly proof-of-concept ``.buildinfo`` server](http://buildinfo.debian.net/) licensed under the GNU AGPLv3. [Source](https://github.com/lamby/buildinfo.debian.net)
+For our goal of enabling everyone to rebuild everything reproducibly, we have the concept of ``.buildinfo`` files, which generally spoken describe the environment, the inputs and the outputs and in the Debian case are available once per package/architecture/version tuple. We anticipate the next dpkg upload to sid will create such ``.buildinfo`` files by default and it's high time to implement something to deal with them…
+
+So Chris Lamb has started development on an [highly proof-of-concept ``.buildinfo`` server](http://buildinfo.debian.net/) licensed under the GNU AGPLv3. [Source](https://github.com/lamby/buildinfo.debian.net)
 
 
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