Post #2279983
2026-04-15 06:24 UTC
@vathpela@infosec.exchange @karolherbst@chaos.social
Not only it is not a popular take, it is a something that can't be done decently because of test explosion; there is no way to do that testing against every version out there.
In your case `"reproducible" builds across many distros and many versions` is never going to happen because slight differences in compiler patches even for the same "version". Plus you have your own test explosion issues.
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@vathpela@infosec.exchange 2026-04-15 06:26
@pinskia@hachyderm.io @karolherbst@chaos.social and yet is does happen, we just do a lot more builds because we can't ask the compiler for well defined behavior.
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@jejb@mastodon.online 2026-04-15 14:43
@pinskia@hachyderm.io @vathpela@infosec.exchange @karolherbst@chaos.social I think you missed some nuance here: you can break stuff as long as no-one notices. In some ways that's why we don't have a test explosion: we don't want to get locked to something because a test notices but no real users do.