Re: bits from the release team

[Jochen Sprickerhof]

Hi Peter,

* Peter Blackman <pe...@pblackman.plus.com> [2026-05-18 14:17]:

We're about half-way the forky release cycle and we'd like to update you on a
small step in code, but a giant leap in commitment.

Reproducibility
===============

Aided by the efforts of the Reproducible Builds project [1], we've decided it's
time to say that Debian must ship reproducible packages. Since yesterday, we
have enabled our migration software to block migration of new packages that
can't be reproduced [2] or existing packages (in testing) that regress in
reproducibility.

do you literally mean just "new" packages,
(i.e. packages that are not currently in the archive),

or does this also include packages deemed NEW because
they have the upstream version number in the package name
(shared libraries, build tools etc.)?

New as in packages not in the testing distribution.

Cheers Jochen

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