On Sunday, 9 July 2023 19:26:36 BST Colin Watson wrote: > On Sun, Jul 09, 2023 at 07:13:54PM +0100, Deri wrote: > > It looks Ok, not tested. I'm happy for you to apply. > > Thanks. > > > Once gropdf moves to the font subsetting version it will cause a > > problem for reproducible builds, since the gubbins inside the pdf > > changes enormously, but it should look identical. > > The object of reproducible builds isn't to ensure that output never > changes - it's understood that different versions of tools frequently > generate different output. Rather, it's to ensure that if two different > people run builds of the same inputs in sufficiently similar > environments, they get the same outputs. (Characterizing "sufficiently > similar" of course takes considerable work, but it usually involves at > least pinning the same versions of all the build-dependencies.)
Understood, thank you. Deri
