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* Vagrant Cascadian noted that the Debian *bookworm* distribution has finally surpassed *bullseye* for reproducibility: 96.1% vs. 96.0%.
* Vagrant Cascadian noted that the Debian *bookworm* distribution has finally surpassed *bullseye* for reproducibility: 96.1% vs. 96.0%, despite having over 3500 more packages in the distribution.
* Roland Clobus posted his [latest update of the status of reproducible Debian ISO images](https://lists.reproducible-builds.org/pipermail/rb-general/2023-February/002877.html) noting that "all major desktops build reproducibly with *bullseye*, *bookworm* and *sid*," with the caveat that "when non-free firmware is activated, some non-reproducible files are generated".
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* Holger Levsen improved a lot of documentation [[...](https://salsa.debian.org/reproducible-builds/reprotest/commit/296800e)][[...](https://salsa.debian.org/reproducible-builds/reprotest/commit/82d585b)][[...](https://salsa.debian.org/reproducible-builds/reprotest/commit/b2a6f6f)] tidied the documentation [[...](https://salsa.debian.org/reproducible-builds/reprotest/commit/e8d9476)][[...](https://salsa.debian.org/reproducible-builds/reprotest/commit/84496fa)] as well as experimented with a new `--random-locale` flag [[...](https://salsa.debian.org/reproducible-builds/reprotest/commit/f76f6e1)].
* Vagrant Cascadian adjusted *reprotest* to no longer randomise the build locale and use a UTF-8 supported locale instead (re. [#925879](https://bugs.debian.org/925879), [#1004950](https://bugs.debian.org/1004950), support passing `--vary=locales.locale=LOCALE` to specify the locale to vary [[...](https://salsa.debian.org/reproducible-builds/reprotest/commit/a92f741)] and add a `--vary-with-locale` flag to be able to specify precisely which locale to use when testing locale variations [[...](https://salsa.debian.org/reproducible-builds/reprotest/commit/15d70a9)].
* Vagrant Cascadian adjusted *reprotest* to no longer randomise the build locale and use a UTF-8 supported locale instead (re. [#925879](https://bugs.debian.org/925879), [#1004950](https://bugs.debian.org/1004950)), and also support passing `--vary=locales.locale=LOCALE` to specify the locale to vary [[...](https://salsa.debian.org/reproducible-builds/reprotest/commit/a92f741)].
Separate to this, Vagrant Cascadian started a thread on our [mailing list](https://lists.reproducible-builds.org/listinfo/rb-general) questioning the [future development and direction of *reprotest*](https://lists.reproducible-builds.org/pipermail/rb-general/2023-February/002876.html).
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