What's even crazier is that Nix builds are this reproducible for free. Like, joe random developer can: nix build nixpkgs#vim nix build nixpkgs#vim --re

What's even crazier is that Nix builds are this reproducible for free. Like, joe random developer can: nix build nixpkgs#vim nix build nixpkgs#vim --rebuild The first invocation will substitute binaries, and the second will rebuild those locally and validate the bit for bit reproducibility of the results. In Debian there is significant ceremony and special tools/wrappers required to set up the reproducible environment, so no one would bother to use it unless they were specifically working on the https://wiki.debian.org/ReproducibleBuilds https://wiki.debian.org/ReproducibleBuilds initiative.