[blog] 01/02: 83: final touch-ups

[Ximin Luo]

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commit 28e74a068c47f66504fd78a7801d7d666c99aa95
Author: Ximin Luo <infinity0 at debian.org>
Date:   Tue Nov 29 19:12:20 2016 +0100

    83: final touch-ups
    
    - consistent formatting with bullet points and spacing
    - expand explanation text of our APT repo
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 drafts/83.mdwn | 38 ++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
 1 file changed, 24 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drafts/83.mdwn b/drafts/83.mdwn
index 15c46b7..cb3debd 100644
--- a/drafts/83.mdwn
+++ b/drafts/83.mdwn
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ What happened in the [Reproducible
 Builds](https://wiki.debian.org/ReproducibleBuilds) effort between Sunday
 November 20 and Saturday November 26 2016:
 
+
 Reproducible work in other projects
 -----------------------------------
 
@@ -69,18 +70,20 @@ reported by:
 strip-nondeterminism development
 --------------------------------
 
-* [[!bug 845203]] was [fixed in
-git](https://anonscm.debian.org/git/reproducible/strip-nondeterminism.git/commit/?id=7124c6b)
-by Reiner Herrmann - the next release will be able to normalize NTFS timestamps
-in zip files.
+ * [[!bug 845203]] was [fixed in
+   git](https://anonscm.debian.org/git/reproducible/strip-nondeterminism.git/commit/?id=7124c6b)
+   by Reiner Herrmann - the next release will be able to normalize NTFS
+   timestamps in zip files.
+
 
 debrepatch development
 ----------------------
 
-Ximin Luo added much more documentation for
-[debpatch](https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/reproducible/debrepatch.git/tree/debpatch)
-and filed [[!bug 845659]] to include it in
-[devscripts](https://packages.debian.org/sid/devscripts).
+ * Ximin Luo added much more documentation for
+   [debpatch](https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/reproducible/debrepatch.git/tree/debpatch)
+   and filed [[!bug 845659]] to include it in
+   [devscripts](https://packages.debian.org/sid/devscripts).
+
 
 Continuous integration:
 -----------------------
@@ -107,13 +110,20 @@ getting closer, Holger made the following changes:
  * Adjust experimental builds scheduling frequency so that experimental results
    are not more recent than the ones in unstable.
 
- * As all our mandatory changes have reached stretch now, he disabled our (currently-empty)
-   APT repository - where we uploaded our patched toolchain packages - for the testing
-   suite (stretch), but leave it active for
-   the unstable and experimental suites. This allows us to continue to
-   experiment with new patches to toolchain packages, whilst retaining a stable
-   mostly-reproducible toolchain environment for stretch.
+ * Disable our APT repository for the testing suite (stretch), but leave it
+   active for the unstable and experimental suites.
+
+   This is the repository where we uploaded patched toolchain packages from
+   time to time, that are necessary to reproduce other packages with. Since
+   recently, all our essential patches have been accepted into Debian stretch
+   and this repository is currently empty. Debian stretch will soon become the
+   next Debian stable, and we want to get an accurate impression of how many of
+   its packages will be reproducible.
 
+   Therefore, disabling this repository for stretch whilst leaving it activated
+   for the Debian unstable and experimental suites, allows us to continue to
+   experiment with new patches to toolchain packages, without affecting our
+   knowledge of the next Debian stable.
 
 
 Misc.

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