Edit: this is usually where you want to look at that question https://tests.reproducible-builds.org/archlinux/archlinux.html
Why is it not stated which research paper? By whom? It's just a reproduction of what they do which is good but the guy reporting about it acts like it's breaking news.
They've got problems in their tests though. There are 5 packages in core that are "unreproducible" and one is the kernel. Pretty significant package, except it fails because of a timeout.
Edit: this is usually where you want to look at that question https://tests.reproducible-builds.org/archlinux/archlinux.html
Why is it not stated which research paper? By whom? It's just a reproduction of what they do which is good but the guy reporting about it acts like it's breaking news.
They've got problems in their tests though. There are 5 packages in core that are "unreproducible" and one is the kernel. Pretty significant package, except it fails because of a timeout.