Some Debian package upgrades are corrupting rsync "quick check" backups

[Henrik Ahlgren]

On Sat, 2017-01-28 at 23:00 +0100, Lupe Christoph wrote:
> On Saturday, 2017-01-28 at 14:51:19 +0000, Holger Levsen wrote:
> > On Sat, Jan 28, 2017 at 03:04:56PM +0100, Daniel Reichelt wrote:
> > > I highly suspect this stems from packages' rules files supporting
> > > reproducible builds.
> 
> > I rather think this is due to binNMUs not modifying debian/changelog…
> > (in the source package while it's modified in the binary packages…)
> 
> This is completely counter intuitive. I'm using rsnapshot to backup a
> few private machines. I will have to set up separate rsnapshots for
> those parts of the backup that suffer from this <expletive>, to avoid
> bogging down the data parts by unnecessary checksum calculations.
> 
> This problem may affect many other backups too. Did anybody research
> backup programs before this <expletive> was introduced to Debian?

Would reproducible-builds at lists.alioth.debian.org be the correct mailing
list to discuss this?