Subj : Debian to require reproducible builds
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From : LWN.net
Date : Mon May 11 2026 14:30:07

Debian to require reproducible builds

Date:
Mon, 11 May 2026 13:21:40 +0000

Description:
Paul Gevers has slipped an interesting bit of news into a " bits from the 
release
team " message: Aided by the efforts of the Reproducible Builds project, 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 or
	existing packages (in testing) that regress in reproducibility. As 
Gioele Barabucci pointed
out , "reproducible" in this sense is limited to building within an
instance of Debian's build environment, which is a tighter requirement than
is normally used.  It is still a big step forward for reproducible builds.

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Link to news story:
https://lwn.net/Articles/1072314/


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