Raising the severity of reproduciblity issues to "important"

[Adrian Bunk]

On Sun, Aug 23, 2015 at 12:48:50PM +0200, Chris Lamb wrote:
>...
> However, based on an informal survey at DebConf (and to reflect the
> feeling towards software reproducibility in the free software community
> in general) unless there are strong objections I intend to raise the
> severity of these wishlist issues to "important" once the toolchain
> changes to dpkg and debhelper land in sid.

Which definition of "reproducibility" are you using for the purpose of 
this proposal?

As of today, the reproducibility definition in policy and what is being 
tested in the r-b infrastructure are quite different.

I would strongly object to raising the severity to "important" for 
packages where it is not proven that they are not reproducible according 
to current [1] policy.

> Regards,

cu
Adrian

[1] current at the time of the severity raise

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