Two questions about build-path reproducibility in Debian

[John Neffenger]

Thank you, Vagrant, for taking my concerns seriously. I realize you've 
been working on this much longer than I have, so I appreciate your 
perspective.

On 3/6/24 10:55 AM, Vagrant Cascadian wrote:
> That means that we do not always support each other in all things, but
> we can support each other in most things, and that seems more important
> to me, at least in this case.

That is the crux of the issue for me. Until now, I thought we were 
rather united in our goal, and we did support one another. Now our goals 
are fragmenting, and I think that makes us weaker.

I thought our common goal, no matter our project affiliation, was to 
enable reproducible builds everywhere: not just Debian, not just Linux 
distributions, but also F-Droid, Flatpak, AppImage, Snap packages, 
different build farms -- anywhere open-source software is built. That 
requires us to work together to eliminate all sources of nondeterminism.

My fear is that, by fragmenting our goals and losing the critical 
support of Debian, the rest of us may never get to that common goal.

John