[Git][reproducible-builds/reproducible-website][jochen-interview] 3 commits: Mark as draft

Wed Aug 26 06:25:11 UTC 2026


Jochen Sprickerhof pushed to branch jochen-interview at Reproducible Builds / reproducible-website


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2307ffc4 by Jochen Sprickerhof at 2026-08-26T08:12:15+02:00
Mark as draft

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2a41ae8a by Jochen Sprickerhof at 2026-08-26T08:12:33+02:00
Whitespace fixes

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50393a53 by Jochen Sprickerhof at 2026-08-26T08:24:14+02:00
Add image and minor fixes

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- _posts/2026-08-25-supporter-spotlight-jochen-sprickerhof.md
- + images/news/supporter-spotlight-jochen-sprickerhof/jochen.jpg


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_posts/2026-08-25-supporter-spotlight-jochen-sprickerhof.md
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@@ -1,11 +1,12 @@
 ---
 layout: post
 title: "Supporter spotlight: Jochen Sprickerhof on ... Reproducible Builds!"
+draft: true
 date: 2026-08-25 00:00:00
 categories: org
 ---
 
-![]({{ "/images/news/supporter-spotlight-jochen-sprickerhof/FIXME.jpg#right" | relative_url }})
+![]({{ "/images/news/supporter-spotlight-jochen-sprickerhof/jochen.jpg#right" | relative_url }})
 
 <big>The Reproducible Builds project [relies on several projects, supporters and sponsors]({{ "/who/" | relative_url }}) for financial support, but they are also valued as ambassadors who spread the word about our project and the work that we do.</big>
 
@@ -22,12 +23,12 @@ Could you tell me a bit about yourself? What sort of things do you work on?
 **
 
 **Jochen Sprickerhof:
-I am a freelance programmer working on Open Source. Mainly doing Debian, 
-F-Droid and some smaller software projects. In general I made it a 
-habit to look into every software I use and try to fix bugs or add 
-features I need. In Debian I maintain about 180 packages with topics 
-from home banking over build systems to robotics. Most of my time I 
-currently work on reproduce.debian.net where we try to bit by 
+I am a freelance programmer working on Open Source. Mainly doing Debian,
+F-Droid and some smaller software projects. In general I made it a
+habit to look into every software I use and try to fix bugs or add
+features I need. In Debian I maintain about 180 packages with topics
+from home banking over build systems to robotics. Most of my time I
+currently work on reproduce.debian.net where we try to bit by
 bit reproduce the packages distributed by Debian.
 **
 
@@ -42,7 +43,7 @@ I started my Debian journey as a pupil, converting my school to Debian
 and serving as it's system administrator for 13 years. After studying
 applied system science I joined the universities robotics labs where I
 worked on the robot operating system ROS and the point cloud library
-PCL.  In the end I enjoyed programming more then writing papers so I
+PCL. In the end I enjoyed programming more then writing papers so I
 eventually left university for a robotics startup. Some years ago I
 realized that the open source work I was doing in my spare time was
 actually the work I cared most about. Nowadays I am really grateful
@@ -74,9 +75,9 @@ that metasnap excluded some archive areas because they where not
 expected to be needed. Reimporting all the data took more then two
 months and surfaced a couple more flaws.
 
-With this fixed we where able to build more packages only to find out 
-that metasnap also needs better support for version numbers. Luckily we 
-where able to rewrite the data in a day instead of starting 
+With this fixed we where able to build more packages only to find out
+that metasnap also needs better support for version numbers. Luckily we
+where able to rewrite the data in a day instead of starting
 the import again.
 **
 
@@ -159,7 +160,7 @@ $ history | awk '{print $1}' | sort  | uniq --count | sort --numeric-sort --reve
 <br>
 
 **Vagrant Cascadian:
-So, is fish shell reproducible? I remember it did not used to...
+So, is the fish shell reproducible? I remember it did not used to...
 **
 
 **Jochen Sprickerhof:
@@ -218,7 +219,7 @@ would like to cut down this tree which means we would have to rebuild
 all of Debian around release time. I am dreaming of a Debian release
 where you could bit by bit reproduce every package just from the
 released versions. Due to how Debian works this is not a trivial
-rebuild but will need some work on the infrastructure.  By the way,
+rebuild but will need some work on the infrastructure. By the way,
 initially there was a third component to pay attention to: any
 connection to the outside world during the build. Luckily we fixed the
 Debian buildds to not allow network connections during the build some
@@ -231,7 +232,7 @@ time ago.
 Thanks for all that work, and taking the time to tell us a bit about yourself!
 **
 
-FIXME
+Thanks a lot for the interview!
 
 <br>
 


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