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Re:The sad state of sysadmin in the age of containers (2015) by lmm on Monday December 09, 2019 @06:42PM (#21747948)
Reproducible builds were a non-goal for apt for most of its existence.
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Re:The sad state of sysadmin in the age of containers (2015) by rumanator on Tuesday December 10, 2019 @01:59PM (#21755672)
> Reproducible builds were a non-goal for apt for most of its existence.

Your comment sounds very disingenuous, as Debian was first released in 1993 (about 26 years ago) and has been pushing for reproducible builds since 2000.

https://wiki.debian.org/ReproducibleBuilds/History

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Re:The sad state of sysadmin in the age of containers (2015) by lmm on Tuesday December 10, 2019 @07:24PM (#21758290)
Your own comment is extremely disingenuous. Your own link states that there was very little enthusiasm for reproducible builds when mentioned in 2000 and 2007, and the first serious effort towards reproducible builds started in 2013.
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Re:The sad state of sysadmin in the age of containers (2015) by soraminazuki on Monday December 09, 2019 @07:10PM (#21748205)
That doesn't dismiss its immense benefits. Besides, what's the source of your claim? Package quality, ease of install, and security were always high-priority topics for Debian AFAICT.
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Re:The sad state of sysadmin in the age of containers (2015) by lmm on Tuesday December 10, 2019 @07:21PM (#21758277)
Decades of experience using Debian. Package quality and ease of install were indeed always a priority (and security may have been claimed as one), but reproducible builds were not seen as necessary for any of those.
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