Hey John, > I'm very glad to see reproducible Debian releases being built! > Congratulations! Is this a feature that Debian values enough to put it > in its major releases, or is it an offshoot? 11.0.0 just came out this > month: was it reproducible? Or if not, perhaps 12 will be?
Just to jump in here on behalf of Roland... This is actually all about various *live-build* images. That is, builds of the handful of "live" ISO images that can be built using a tool of that name. It has little to do with the official Debian installation media (ie. ISOs that use the Debian Installer, also known as "d-i"), and nor does it refer to the Debian distribution as a whole. Your queries about whether the recent release of bullseye 11.0.0 was reproducible or not made that bit worthy of a quick clarification. (As a technical aside, Debian live images are constructed in such a way that means that the underlying packages do not need to be reproducible in the usual "source → binary" sense for the build of the *live* image to be reproducible/nondeterministic. This is what makes a statement such as "live image X of Debian Y is reproducible" potentially misleading about whether Debian Y is itself reproducible — alas, it's likely not.) Finally, this is still all an unofficial effort at least at the moment... Still, really admire your keenness and am heartened by the progress in the right direction. Hope the above helps. Best wishes, -- o ⬋ ⬊ Chris Lamb o o reproducible-builds.org 💠 ⬊ ⬋ o