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Vagrant Cascadian pushed to branch master at <a href="https://salsa.debian.org/reproducible-builds/reproducible-website" style="color: #1068bf;">Reproducible Builds / reproducible-website</a>
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<span> by Vagrant Cascadian </span> <i> at 2022-10-05T13:16:58-07:00 </i>
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<td class="line_content" style="padding: inherit;"><pre style='display: block; font-size: 0.8125rem; color: #303030; position: relative; font-family: "Menlo", "DejaVu Sans Mono", "Liberation Mono", "Consolas", "Ubuntu Mono", "Courier New", "andale mono", "lucida console", monospace; word-break: break-all; word-wrap: break-word; background-color: inherit; border-radius: 2px; margin: 0; padding: 0; border: inherit solid #dbdbdb;'> <span id="LC33" class="line" lang="markdown">David Wheeler also pointed out that there are some potential upcoming changes to the <span class="p">[</span><span class="nv" style="color: #008080;">OpenSSF Best Practices</span><span class="p">](</span><span class="sx" style="color: #d14;">https://bestpractices.coreinfrastructure.org/en</span><span class="p">)</span> badge for open source software in relation to reproducibility. Whilst the badge programme has <span class="p">[</span><span class="nv" style="color: #008080;">three certification levels</span><span class="p">](</span><span class="sx" style="color: #d14;">https://bestpractices.coreinfrastructure.org/en/criteria</span><span class="p">)</span> <span class="p">(</span><span class="sx" style="color: #d14;">"passing",</span> <span class="nn" style="color: #555;">"silver"</span> and "gold"), the "gold" level includes the criterion that "The project MUST have a reproducible build".</span>
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<td class="line_content old" style="padding: inherit;" bgcolor="#fbe9eb"><pre style='display: block; font-size: 0.8125rem; color: #303030; position: relative; font-family: "Menlo", "DejaVu Sans Mono", "Liberation Mono", "Consolas", "Ubuntu Mono", "Courier New", "andale mono", "lucida console", monospace; word-break: break-all; word-wrap: break-word; background-color: inherit; border-radius: 2px; margin: 0; padding: 0; border: inherit solid #dbdbdb;'>-<span id="LC35" class="line" lang="markdown">However, <span class="p">[</span><span class="nv" style="color: #008080;">David reported</span><span class="p">](</span><span class="sx" style="color: #d14;">https://lists.reproducible-builds.org/pipermail/rb-general/2022-September/002696.html</span><span class="p">)</span> that some projects have argued that this reproducibility criterion should be slightly relaxed as outlined in an <span class="p">[</span><span class="nv" style="color: #008080;">issue on the `best-practices-badge`</span><span class="p">](</span><span class="sx" style="color: #d14;">https://github.com/coreinfrastructure/best-practices-badge/issues/1865</span><span class="p">)</span> GitHub project. Essentially, though, the claim is that the reproducibility requirement doesn't make sense for projects that do not release built software, and that timestamp differences by <span class="ge" style="font-style: italic;">*themselves*</span> don't necessarily indicate malicious changes.</span>
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<td class="line_content new" style="padding: inherit;" bgcolor="#ecfdf0"><pre style='display: block; font-size: 0.8125rem; color: #303030; position: relative; font-family: "Menlo", "DejaVu Sans Mono", "Liberation Mono", "Consolas", "Ubuntu Mono", "Courier New", "andale mono", "lucida console", monospace; word-break: break-all; word-wrap: break-word; background-color: inherit; border-radius: 2px; margin: 0; padding: 0; border: inherit solid #dbdbdb;'>+<span id="LC35" class="line" lang="markdown">However, <span class="p">[</span><span class="nv" style="color: #008080;">David reported</span><span class="p">](</span><span class="sx" style="color: #d14;">https://lists.reproducible-builds.org/pipermail/rb-general/2022-September/002696.html</span><span class="p">)</span> that some projects have argued that this reproducibility criterion should be slightly relaxed as outlined in an <span class="p">[</span><span class="nv" style="color: #008080;">issue on the `best-practices-badge`</span><span class="p">](</span><span class="sx" style="color: #d14;">https://github.com/coreinfrastructure/best-practices-badge/issues/1865</span><span class="p">)</span> GitHub project. Essentially, though, the claim is that the reproducibility requirement doesn't make sense for projects that do not release built software, and that timestamp differences by <span class="ge" style="font-style: italic;">*themselves*</span> don't necessarily indicate malicious changes.<span class="idiff left right addition" style="background-color: #c7f0d2;"> Numerous pragmitic problems around excluding timestamps we raised in the discussion of the issue.</span></span>
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