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by quantummagic 38 days ago
> zero improvement on end-user experience.

Maybe not by itself, but it does allow for the ecosystem to be audited, in a way that ultimately benefits the end-user. It really is an important part of a healthy supply chain.

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no problem in Debian since the start of the effort would be solved by reproductible builds

This is nice pat yourself on the back achievement for people that prefer security theatre and checking boxes than doing something actually useful, and they wasted thousands man hours of poor victims that had to implement it