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so they would already be using merged /usr if it wasn't for the fact that the debootstrap backport is currently out of date with respect to buster.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
