[Git][reproducible-builds/reproducible-website][master] Interview Jochen: fix syntax, improve answers

Wed Aug 26 07:00:00 UTC 2026


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


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a5cf538d by Jochen Sprickerhof at 2026-08-26T08:59:22+02:00
Interview Jochen: fix syntax, improve answers

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@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ categories: org
 
 <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>
 
-This is the *ninth* installment in a series featuring the projects, companies and individuals who support the Reproducible Builds project. We started this series by [featuring the Civil Infrastructure Platform]({{ "/news/2020/10/21/supporter-spotlight-cip-project/" | relative_url }}) project, and followed this up with a [post about the Ford Foundation]({{ "/news/2021/04/06/supporter-spotlight-ford-foundation/" | relative_url }}) as well as recent ones about [ARDC]({{ "/news/2022/04/14/supporter-spotlight-ardc/" | relative_url }}), the [Google Open Source Security Team (GOSST)]({{ "/news/2022/04/26/supporter-spotlight-google-open-source-security-team/" | relative_url }}), [Bootstrappable Builds]({{ "/news/2022/05/18/jan-nieuwenhuizen-on-bootrappable-builds-gnu-mes-and-gnu-guix/" | relative_url }}), [the F-Droid project]({{ "/news/2022/06/24/supporter-spotlight-hans-christoph-steiner-f-droid-project/" | relative_url }}), [David A. Wheeler]({{ "/news/2022/12/15/supporter-spotlight-davidawheeler-supply-chain-security/" | relative_url }}), [Simon Butler]({{ "/news/2023/08/01/supporter-spotlight-simon-butler/" | relative_url }}) and [Kees Cook]({{ "/news/2024/09/29/supporter-spotlight-kees-cook/ | relative_url }}).
+This is the *ninth* installment in a series featuring the projects, companies and individuals who support the Reproducible Builds project. We started this series by [featuring the Civil Infrastructure Platform]({{ "/news/2020/10/21/supporter-spotlight-cip-project/" | relative_url }}) project, and followed this up with a [post about the Ford Foundation]({{ "/news/2021/04/06/supporter-spotlight-ford-foundation/" | relative_url }}) as well as recent ones about [ARDC]({{ "/news/2022/04/14/supporter-spotlight-ardc/" | relative_url }}), the [Google Open Source Security Team (GOSST)]({{ "/news/2022/04/26/supporter-spotlight-google-open-source-security-team/" | relative_url }}), [Bootstrappable Builds]({{ "/news/2022/05/18/jan-nieuwenhuizen-on-bootrappable-builds-gnu-mes-and-gnu-guix/" | relative_url }}), [the F-Droid project]({{ "/news/2022/06/24/supporter-spotlight-hans-christoph-steiner-f-droid-project/" | relative_url }}), [David A. Wheeler]({{ "/news/2022/12/15/supporter-spotlight-davidawheeler-supply-chain-security/" | relative_url }}), [Simon Butler]({{ "/news/2023/08/01/supporter-spotlight-simon-butler/" | relative_url }}) and [Kees Cook]({{ "/news/2024/09/29/supporter-spotlight-kees-cook/" | relative_url }}).
 
 Today, however, we will be talking with <big>**Jochen Sprickerhof**</big>,
 one of the newer members of the Reproducible Builds project core team.
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ 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
-eventually left university for a robotics startup. Some years ago I
+eventually left academia 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
 that I can spend my days working on things I find important and have
@@ -114,9 +114,15 @@ you would really like to see?
 **
 
 **Jochen Sprickerhof:
-tracker.debian.org should point to reproduce.debian.net in the links
-section and have an "action needed" entry if the package is not
-reproducible.
+The central tool to reproduce Debian packages is debrebuild, also written
+by josch. Currently it has two ways to retrieve the build dependencies of
+a package. Either it uses metasnap.debian.net as explained above or it can
+access the Debian unstable apt archive directly. This allows to test packages
+locally before everything is indexed on metasnap.debian.net by compiling
+against against unstable. But actually there are many other apt repositories
+to query, like Debian stable or even derivatives. Adding support for an
+optional list of apt repositories in debrebuild would be great. That would
+also be a big step to support reproducing other Debian distributions.
 **
 
 <br>
@@ -193,8 +199,8 @@ What tools do you use specifically working on reproducible builds?
 **Jochen Sprickerhof:
 I don't have statistics for that but I would say sbuild, to build the
 package, debrebuild, to reproduce it, and diffoscope to analyze the
-differences. Obviously I also need apt source or gbp to get the
-sources and all the tools I mentioned above.
+differences. Obviously I also need apt source <pkg> or git-buildpackage
+to get the sources and all the tools I mentioned above.
 **
 
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