I have been triaging and fixing #ReproducibleBuilds bugs in #Debian with submitted patches older than a year.

Down to 31 bugs by performing or offering to do a few Non-Maintainer-Uploads (a.k.a. #NMU ).

Including newer bugs, it is closer to 100.

This excludes all build path related issues; we are at the point where the official buildd.debian.org network uses deterministic build paths and most build tools can as well, so that is lower priority now.

Always more to come, never done!

One of my favorite features of #Guix is "guix shell PACKAGE" to install a package in a throwaway environment, without worrying about building up cruft with installed packages.

I recently used this ugly hack on #Debian from a packaging directory with minimal dependencies:

sbuild -d UNRELEASED -c sid --add-depends=presenterm --starting-build-commands='%SBUILD_SHELL'

I already have sbuild installed; this costs me nothing!

I can experiment with packages from Unstable on my Stable system!