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I would gladly set a "preproducible_only=yes" or whatever config option to exclude non-reproducible packages from a personal system. This would create a strong
by verytrivial 8y ago
I would gladly set a "preproducible_only=yes" or whatever config option to exclude non-reproducible packages from a personal system. This would create a strong incentive to contribute patches. (I'm hoping someone can point out such a setting already exists! It didn't last time I checked.)
- rkangel 8y agoUnfortunately, such a flag would probably result in weird package install/update errors as part of the dependency graph would be missing.
- BenjiWiebe 8y agoWouldn't have to be a wierd error message. "The package foo cannot be installed because it's dependency bar cannot be reproducibly built."
- rcthompson 8y agoCan a package even be considered reproducible if its dependencies aren't?
- verytrivial 8y agoI would argue not, but that's the point, right? Do we have a large enough well-connected graph of reproducibly buildable packages, and if not, what should be fixed first?
- lozenge 8y agoThat depends on whether the dependencies are build dependencies.
- lamby 8y agoSo, this actually exists as an extremely WIP patch: https://bugs.debian.org/863622 https://bugs.debian.org/863622 Underling that you should not apply this patch and/or it is simply a demonstration of one potential user-interface.