[Git][reproducible-builds/specs/source-date-epoch-spec][content] Adapt motivation section

[Robin Candau (@Antiz)]

Robin Candau pushed to branch content at Reproducible Builds / specs / source-date-epoch-spec


Commits:
4fc845e6 by Bernhard M. Wiedemann at 2026-09-24T14:12:22+02:00
Adapt motivation section

We copied the current definition from the website,
capitalized R-B and
dropped some outdated sentences.

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1 changed file:

- source-date-epoch-spec.xml


Changes:

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source-date-epoch-spec.xml
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@@ -57,19 +57,19 @@
 <sect1>
 	<title>Motivation</title>
 	<para>
+		Reproducible Builds are a set of software development practices that
+		create an independently-verifiable path from source to binary code.
 		Whilst anyone can inspect the source code of free software for
 		malicious instructions, most distributions provide binary (or
 		"compiled") packages to end users. The motivation behind
-		"reproducible" builds is to allow verification that no malicious instructions
-		have been introduced during this compilation process by
+		Reproducible Builds is to allow verification that no malicious instructions
+		have been introduced during this build process by
 		promising identical binary packages are always generated from a
 		given source.
 	</para>
 	<para>
-		This protects against the installation of backdoor-introducing
-		malware on developers' machines as an attacker would need to
-		simultaneously infect all the developers attempting to
-		reproduce the build. In addition, a reproducible build has
+		Reproducible Builds help to protect against the installation of
+		malware on users' machines. In addition, a reproducible build has
 		other technical advantages:
 	</para>
 	<itemizedlist>



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