Alarmed at the prospect of being unable to trust all 24,000-plus Debian packages, most of which are built on package maintainers’ laptops, the Debian Project has pushed hard over the last three years to make as many packages reproducibly buildable as possible. As of this writing, 91 percent have achieved that goal, and the project hopes to hit 100 percent in 2017.
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