Debian to require reproducible builds

Paul Gevers has slipped an interesting bit of news into a "bits from the releaseteam" message:

Aided by the efforts of the Reproducible Builds project, we'vedecided it's time to say that Debian must ship reproduciblepackages. Since yesterday, we have enabled our migration softwareto block migration of new packages that can't be reproduced orexisting packages (in testing) that regress in reproducibility.

As Gioele Barabucci pointedout, "reproducible" in this sense is limited to building within aninstance of Debian's build environment, which is a tighter requirement thanis normally used. It is still a big step forward for reproducible builds.