[$] The history, status, and plans for reproducible builds On the second day of https://debconf24.debconf.org/ in Busan, South Korea, Holger Levsen provided a history lesson on the "first 11 years" of the https://reproducible-builds.org/ . He has been involved in the project for most of that time and has been a Debian user since the mid-1990s, contributor since 2001, and a Debian member since 2007; "I love Debian". Meanwhile, his aim is to make all free software be reproducible, so that anyone can check that a binary program comes from the source code it purports to. https://lwn.net/Articles/985739/