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To: debian-devel-announce@lists.debian.org Subject: bits from the release team From: Paul Gevers <elbrus@debian.org> Date: Sun, 10 May 2026 04:47:30 +0000 Message-id: <[🔎] E1wLw4g-000n88-0p@respighi.debian.org> Mail-followup-to: debian-devel@lists.debian.org

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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.

Testing binNMUs ===============

Earlier this year, functionality was added to the migration software to run autopkgtests for binNMUs, just like we do for source-full uploads. While this is probably not very relevant for the work of most maintainers, it is another step in quality assurance.

loong64 =======

Two weeks ago, a new architecture was added to the archive: loong64 [3]. Because we only allow binaries built on the buildds to migrate and because of multi-arch requirements, we had to rebuild quite a few packages on all architectures. Because of the new binNMU functionality mentioned above, this means that the CI queue is currently rather big. Please exercise a bit of patience.

Post-upload follow-up =====================

It is the responsibility of the uploader of a source package to ensure that it migrates. That means that if your package is blocked by autopkgtest regressions in reverse (test) dependencies, which need updating, we expect you to file the appropriate bugs (severity RC).

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Greetings from Hamburg, on behalf of the Release Team Paul

[1] https://reproducible-builds.org/ [2] on https://reproduce.debian.net/ [3] https://wiki.debian.org/Ports/loong64

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