Debian to require reproducible builds
Paul Gevers has slipped an interesting bit of news into a "bits from the release team" message: Aided by the efforts of the Reproducible Builds project, 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 or existing packages (in testing) that regress in reproducibility. As Gioele Barabucci pointed out, "reproducible" in this sense is limited to building within an instance of Debian's build environment, which is a tighter requirement than is normally used. It is still a big step forward for reproducible builds.