[OT] Re: The D ecosystem in Debian with free-as-in-freedom DMD

Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Tue Apr 11 05:56:44 PDT 2017


On Tue, 2017-04-11 at 12:48 +0000, Matthias Klumpp via Digitalmars-d
wrote:
[…]
> That's false. Debian is leading the effort on reproducible builds 
> that many other projects (including Fedora) have joined, and a 
> large chunk of packages is already reproducible[1].
> It's actually quite the opposite: Build systems downloading 
> random stuff from the internet make the system more likely to 
> produce different build results.

You are closer the that community that I am and so have better
knowledge there. My comment was really reflecting the cant about the OS
packages.

> But in any case, the primary use for Debian packages is to be 
> used by the distribution.

Where Debian and Fedora provide applications written in Go they will be
statically linked. So is the use case that everything used to create
the application has to be packaged?

> [1]: 
> https://tests.reproducible-builds.org/debian/reproducible.html
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