bits from the release team (Debian)

[Holger Levsen]

On Sun, May 10, 2026 at 08:37:20AM -0700, John Neffenger wrote:
> This seems like big news!

yes, indeed, thanks for sharing it here, John.

> bits from the release team (debian-devel-announce at lists.debian.org)
> https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2026/05/msg00001.html
> 
>   "Aided by the efforts of the Reproducible Builds project [1], we've
> decided it's time to say that Debian must ship reproducible packages. Since
> yesterday, we have enabled our migration software to block migration of new
> packages that can't be reproduced [2] or existing packages (in testing) that
> regress in reproducibility."
> 
> I'm very happy to see this change. :-)

oh, me too! :)

I've just came back from https://hamburg2026.mini.debconf.org/ where
we discussed and prepared this and where I also gave a talk announcing
and explaining this change:

https://meetings-archive.debian.net/pub/debian-meetings/2026/MiniDebConf-Hamburg/hamburg2026-37-reproducedebiannet-reproducing-what-is-distributed-from-ftpdo.av1.webm

I'm super excited that we have finally reached this stage! Now it will
only be a few more years until a Debian release with 42k source packages
being bit by bit reproducible on all eight CPU architectures! \o/


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	Holger

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