Debian's exceptions to packages built on buildds are the non-free packages

Posted Apr 1, 2025 11:46 UTC (Tue) by sthibaul (✭ supporter ✭, #54477)
Parent article: Fedora change aims for 99% package reproducibility

> Debian's build daemons build most binary packages from source for distribution to users, but there are exceptions.

To be noted: the only exceptions are the obvious contrib, non-free and non-free-firmware packages. And even for contrib, it's only the packages that really cannot be built without non-free packages, that are usually built by maintainers.

I.e. the released real Debian (the main archive where all the free packages are) is always built on buildds.