I'm aware of that. I was asking why that change was made.

From the guidelines:

Please submit the original source. If a post reports on something found on another site, submit the latter.

It is amusing (well, to me) to note that ^lamby here is Chris Lamb, a major contributor to the Debian Reproducible Builds project. If anyone has the social currency to publish a such a capslock "no" and still mean it in a purely informative and constructive way, he probably is towards the top of the list of folks so qualified.