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Take a look at the decade+ long effort that Debian has put into this problem: https://wiki.debian.org/ReproducibleBuilds

Several distros are above the 90% mark of all packages being byte-for-byte reproducible, and one or two have hit the 99% mark.

> Several distros are above the 90% mark of all packages being byte-for-byte reproducible, and one or two have hit the 99% mark.

Simply incredible.

Explains F-Droid's recent success with Reproducible Builds (as some F-Droid maintainers are also active in the Debian scene): https://f-droid.org/en/2025/05/21/making-reproducible-builds...