Bug#1021402: reproducible: Please force merged-/usr for build2

[Luca Boccassi]

On Wed, 12 Oct 2022 at 12:02, Holger Levsen <holger at layer-acht.org> wrote:
>
> hi,
>
> On Mon, Oct 10, 2022 at 08:38:42PM +0100, Simon McVittie wrote:
> > With TC-member hat on: for at least bookworm, sid and experimental,
> > yes we would like reproducible-builds to test the non-merged-/usr
> > configuration (which will become unsupported) in one build, and the
> > merged-/usr configuration (which will become mandatory) in the other.
> > This is so that if a package is misbuilt in a merged-/usr chroot (or in
> > theory if it's misbuilt in a non-merged-/usr chroot), it will show up
> > as a non-reproducibility.
> [...]
>
> thanks for this verbose explaination. I'm still not fully convinced
> as (AIUI) by now everthing that ends up in bookworm will be build on
> Debian autobuilders, which (again, AIUI) all have usrmerged layout.

As per CTTE decision, buildds are still unmerged and will stay
unmerged till at least after Bookworm as shipped.

Kind regards,
Luca Boccassi