Distribution quotes of the week

[Posted November 7, 2018 by ris]

The truth is, the Solus project has stood on its own merit and feet for a long time, and has moved under it's own steam. For a long time I had said that I was merely the first settler in the town that would become Solus, and in time it would need it's own architects, planners and mayor.

— Ikey Doherty (leaves the Solus project in an open letter to Phoronix)

Vagrant Cascadian has probed the Debian package archives found that in current Debian Sid, 88 out of the 154 packages (57%) of the Debian binary packages installed in a minimal system can be verifiably reproduced.

For a long time, 25,561 out of 27,427 (93%) of the total source packages in the Debian archive have been known to be reproducible in our testing environment. While 57% is a lower figure it could be considered a more substantial statistic as it is not a measure of packages that behave well under carefully controlled conditions but of "real world" Debian artifacts that are installed on end-user systems.

— Reproducible Builds weekly report (Thanks to David A. Wheeler)

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