[Qa-jenkins-dev] Bug#901473: Bug#901473: jenkins.debian.org: Vary merged-usr in reproducibility testing?

[Simon McVittie]

On Sat, 14 Jul 2018 at 18:39:36 +0200, Philipp Kern wrote:
> On 14.07.2018 13:01, Michael Biebl wrote:
> > I would have expected that buildds use debootstrap from unstable, but
> > I'm not a buildd admin, so I trust you to know more about that then me.
> > Thanks for correcting me on that and sorry if that caused confusion.
> 
> For the record: buildds usually (except new architectures) run stable
> and hence have no easy way of pulling in a newer debootstrap. That also
> makes them relatively easy to reason about. Packages we forked in the
> past were sbuild and sometimes schroot (although we try very hard to
> avoid that).

According to <https://bugs.debian.org/913229> buildds now run debootstrap
from stretch-backports, so they would already be using merged /usr if
it wasn't for the fact that the debootstrap backport is currently out
of date with respect to buster.

    smcv