Debian 14 cracks down on unreproducible packages

About halfway through the Debian 14 “Forky” development process, its release team announced a new goal: deterministic package compilation. The Debian project’s latest Bits from the release team newsletter has a goal which may not sound very big, but will mean significant extra effort in a direction that could prove to be a valuable extra security measure. "Aided by the efforts of the Reproducible Builds project, we’ve decided it’s time to say that Debian must ship reproducible packages," wrote R