This doesn't have to be true. It's perfectly possible to produce a reproducible-build snap, and many Free Software snaps are reproducible from source. It's esta

This doesn't have to be true. It's perfectly possible to produce a reproducible-build snap, and many Free Software snaps are reproducible from source. It's established convention to do it this way. The capability is necessary because snaps can also ship proprietary software (eg. Spotify, Skype, etc). So one wouldn't expect this to be a property of (binary) snaps, just as it isn't for binary debs. apt/deb comes with "source package building tooling" (dpkg-source, dpkg-buildpackage, policy around debian/rules, etc) and so do snaps (snapcraft).