[blog] 04/04: Reword the "must" bit to avoid awkwad "not what we really want" as it's a bit too pessimistic given the work involved to get this far.

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Author: Chris Lamb <lamby at debian.org>
Date:   Fri Aug 25 12:48:30 2017 +0100

    Reword the "must" bit to avoid awkwad "not what we really want" as it's a bit too pessimistic given the work involved to get this far.
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 drafts/121.mdwn | 2 +-
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diff --git a/drafts/121.mdwn b/drafts/121.mdwn
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@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ easier for packages to meet it.
   briefly describing the background and implications of this. To quote him: "we are *not 94% done* yet, rather more like half done or so. We still need tools and processes to *enable anyone to indepently verify* that a given binary comes from the sources it is said to be coming, this will involve distributing `.buildinfo` 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 is still a lot of pa [...]
 * 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.
+* Our long-term goal is that Policy mandates that packages "must" be reproducible, but for that we need to show further progress and also reach a consensus on `.buildinfo` files and much more.
 
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