and the discussion initiated by David Wheeler on rb-general.
* Bernhard M. Wiedemann gave an [update on the openSUSE reproducible builds status](https://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-factory/2018-10/msg00242.html), including details on remaining issues with 57 important packages.
* Vagrant Cascadian began [uploading .buildinfo files from the Debian archive](https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=862073#39) to buildinfo.debian.net to make them publicly available.
*[open-iscsi](https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/644084)(fix date in man-pages)
*[xen](https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/644624)(date+time, random, [tried to upstream](https://lists.xenproject.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2018-10/msg01850.html) the patch to drop .efi PE timestamps, and then try to address it in [binutils](https://sourceware.org/ml/binutils/2018-10/msg00279.html)(use`SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH` for PE timestamp))