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On 24/08/15 20:24, Santiago Vila wrote:

> Well, I object strongly.

Same here, in my view reproducibility is a 'nice to have' it should
*never* be forced on a package.

We are in the business of packaging upstream software for
distribution. We should not make arbitrary changes to upstream
software, such as changing the way a date is added to a man page, just
to make the build reproducible.

> Making a great percentage of packages in the archive to be
> "suddenly" buggy is unacceptable.

+1

> We all want Debian to build reproducibly

Do we? Personally I'd rather stay true to the upstream.

If the reproducible builds advocates want to insist on something then
it should be a way of specifying an 'override' similar to that used
for Lintian errors and warnings.

Colin

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