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Research paper tests how many Arch Linux packages are reproducible
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Edit: this is usually where you want to look at that question https://tests.reproducible-builds.org/archlinux/archlinux.html
Why is it not stated which research paper? By whom? It's just a reproduction of what they do which is good but the guy reporting about it acts like it's breaking news.
They've got problems in their tests though. There are 5 packages in core that are "unreproducible" and one is the kernel. Pretty significant package, except it fails because of a timeout.
Why would linux and linux-lts fail but not inux-zen?
linux-zen does fail, it's just not in Core, but in Extra.
I see, thanks