Re: bits from the release team

On 10/05/2026 05:47, Paul Gevers wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> We're about half-way the forky release cycle and we'd like to update you on a
> small step in code, but a giant leap in commitment.
> 
> Reproducibility
> ===============
> 
> Aided by the efforts of the Reproducible Builds project [1], we've decided it's
> time to say that Debian must ship reproducible packages. Since yesterday, we
> have enabled our migration software to block migration of new packages that
> can't be reproduced [2] or existing packages (in testing) that regress in
> reproducibility.
Hi,

do you literally mean just "new" packages,
(i.e. packages that are not currently in the archive),

or does this also include packages deemed NEW because
they have the upstream version number in the package name
(shared libraries, build tools etc.)?


Cheers,
Peter