[blog] 01/01: 121: explain that the policy work aint over yet

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Author: Holger Levsen <holger at layer-acht.org>
Date:   Fri Aug 25 13:39:05 2017 +0200

    121: explain that the policy work aint over yet
    
    Signed-off-by: Holger Levsen <holger at layer-acht.org>
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@@ -6,7 +6,8 @@ Reproducible Builds finally mandated by Debian Policy
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 "Packages should build reproducibly" was [merged into Debian
-policy](https://anonscm.debian.org/git/dbnpolicy/policy.git/commit/?id=bf256860fbf9d7dccc05fe1aa85841b7a1b1d712)! The added text is as follows:
+policy](https://anonscm.debian.org/git/dbnpolicy/policy.git/commit/?id=bf256860fbf9d7dccc05fe1aa85841b7a1b1d712)! The added text is as follows and
+has been included into [debian-policy 4.1.0.0](https://tracker.debian.org/news/864773):
 
 <pre>
 Reproducibility
@@ -42,6 +43,7 @@ easier for packages to meet it.
   briefly describing the background and implications of this, to quote him: "we are <i>not 94% done</i> yet, rather more like half done or so. We still need tools and processes to <i>enable anyone to indepently verify</i> that a given binary comes from the sources it is said to be coming, this will involve distributing <code>.buildinfo</code> files and providing user interfaces in APT and elsewhere. And probably also systematic rebuilds by us and other parties. And 6 or 7% of the archive [...]
 * There were discussion threads on [Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15010438)
   and [reddit](https://www.reddit.com/r/debian/comments/6touxc/new_debian_policy_packages_should_be_reproducible/).
+* Rather obviously, this is not yet what we really want to achieve, which is "packages <b>must</b> be reproducible" and then we also need to define things around <code>.buildinfo</code> files and more.
 
 Reproducible work in other projects
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