Experimental package repository moved

[Mattia Rizzolo]

Hi people,

I apologize for the delay in sending this notice, I completely forgot…

On Wednesday the alioth.d.o admin, as planned[0], shut down the project
websites, including our reproducible.alioth.debian.org.

We were using that space also to host our experimental toolchain
repository[1].

Not having a particularly good idea on where to move it and also having
received no suggestions on IRC, I moved them to jenkins as well.  This
means that from now on pretty much only me and Holger will be able to
upload packages there.  I don't forsee this as a problem in the short
term, as I was pretty much the only one keeping up with the updates of
our patched gcc and dpkg.  In the long term we should get rid of those
as well, so…[2].  In case you would like to upload new packages, just
get in touch with me.

The new URL for the repository is
    https://tests.reproducible-builds.org/debian/repository/debian/
It's signed by the same key used previously, so apart from the changing
the URL (and maybe dealing with the HTTPS-only repo[3]) everything
should just work.

We also need somebody to update the wiki page[1], which has been
outdated for a while now…


[0] https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2018/04/msg00008.html
[1] https://wiki.debian.org/ReproducibleBuilds/ExperimentalToolchain
[2] On a related note, we really need somebody to figure what are the
    next steps on BUILD_PATH_PREFIX_MAP and gcc, etc.
[3] e.g.
    https://salsa.debian.org/qa/jenkins.debian.net/commit/d4b907243
    & https://salsa.debian.org/qa/jenkins.debian.net/commit/db3832025

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regards,
                        Mattia Rizzolo

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