* Bernhard M. Wiedemann posted a status update to the [opensuse-factory mailing list](https://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-factory/) on the [current state of reproducible builds](https://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-factory/2018-10/msg00242.html) in [openSUSE](https://www.opensuse.org/).
* Vagrant Cascadian [announced](https://lists.reproducible-builds.org/pipermail/rb-general/2018-October/001227.html) that has bas [begun uploading `.buildinfo` files from the Debian archive](https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=862073#39) to the experimental [buildinfo.debian.net](https://buildinfo.debian.net/) service.
* Vagrant Cascadian [announced](https://lists.reproducible-builds.org/pipermail/rb-general/2018-October/001227.html) that he has [begun uploading `.buildinfo` files from the Debian archive](https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=862073#39) to the experimental [buildinfo.debian.net](https://buildinfo.debian.net/) service.
* Vagrant Cascadian then used a simple script and found that in the current
Debian as delivered (now that some .buildinfo data is available) 57% of the packages installed in a minimal system are verifiably reproducible (88 reproducible and 66 unreproducible). This is a major step forward, as this is not a measure of special reproducible builds created "on the side", but of the actual "real world" Debian packages.
* David A. Wheeler started a thread on [our mailing list](https://lists.reproducible-builds.org/listinfo/rb-general) enquiring on the [status of core reproducibility in Debian](https://lists.reproducible-builds.org/pipermail/rb-general/2018-October/001215.html).
David A. Wheeler <dwheeler@dwheeler.com>