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		8organicbits on July 10, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Towards Idempotent Rebuilds? Bug free is less important for reproducible builds, so long as the bugs are reproducible. Compiler bugs are of course still a problem for other reasons.

bobmcnamara on July 10, 2024 [–]

My point is only that even when the software is correct, the reproducible build rate will either be 100% or we've got a representative sample set.

Until then, those issues will continue to be lumped together with all the software reasons it wasn't reproducible.

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