[blog] 01/01: 121: add policy text

[Holger Levsen]

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Author: Holger Levsen <holger at layer-acht.org>
Date:   Fri Aug 25 13:28:43 2017 +0200

    121: add policy text
    
    Signed-off-by: Holger Levsen <holger at layer-acht.org>
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diff --git a/drafts/121.mdwn b/drafts/121.mdwn
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@@ -6,7 +6,37 @@ Reproducible Builds finally mandated by Debian Policy
 -----------------------------------------------------
 
 "Packages should build reproducibly" was [merged into Debian
-policy](https://anonscm.debian.org/git/dbnpolicy/policy.git/commit/?id=bf256860fbf9d7dccc05fe1aa85841b7a1b1d712)!
+policy](https://anonscm.debian.org/git/dbnpolicy/policy.git/commit/?id=bf256860fbf9d7dccc05fe1aa85841b7a1b1d712)! The added text is as follows:
+
+<pre>
+Reproducibility
+---------------
+
+Packages should build reproducibly, which for the purposes of this
+document [#]_ means that given
+
+- a version of a source package unpacked at a given path;
+- a set of versions of installed build dependencies;
+- a set of environment variable values;
+- a build architecture; and
+- a host architecture,
+
+repeatedly building the source package for the build architecture on
+any machine of the host architecture with those versions of the build
+dependencies installed and exactly those environment variable values
+set will produce bit-for-bit identical binary packages.
+
+It is recommended that packages produce bit-for-bit identical binaries
+even if most environment variables and build paths are varied.  It is
+intended for this stricter standard to replace the above when it is
+easier for packages to meet it.
+
+.. [#]
+   This is Debian's precisification of the `reproducible-builds.org
+   definition <https://reproducible-builds.org/docs/definition/>`_.
+
+</pre>
+
 
 * Holger Levsen [wrote a blog post](https://layer-acht.org/thinking/blog/20170812-reproducible-policy/)
   briefly describing the background and implications of this.

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