Holger Levsen has been a Debian user since more than 25 years and an official Debian member since 2007. Since 2014 his main focus has been Reproducible Builds, though he is still involved in some other Debian areas like general QA and Sequoia PGP maintenance in the Debian Rust team. So far he has set up automated reproducibility testing for Debian, Fedora, Arch Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD and coreboot. He always happy to talk about bit by bit reproducing software.
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In this talk Holger will briefly explain the concept and reasons fors reproducible builds and how Debian finally has started to make them mandatory for the upcoming release of the distribution scheduled in 2027. A big part in this is reproduce.debian.net which attempts to bit-for-bit identically rebuild each Debian binary package found in the distribution archive, using the .buildinfo file produced when the buildd originally built the package.
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