Bug#1126440: Help with libsoup reproducibility

[Jeremy Bícha]

On Tue, Oct 27, 2026 at 7:57 AM Jochen Sprickerhof <jspricke at debian.org> wrote:
> To give some more insights: debrebuild uses mmdebstrap to create the
> chroot which cleans up /run by default, as it is assumed to be a tmpfs.
> So to make sbuild and debrebuild consistent we could either cleanup /run
> in sbuild or call mmdebstrap with --skip=cleanup/run. Would be happy to
> hear opinions and how other distributions handle this.

I didn't look closely at gnome-settings-daemon yet. However, the GNOME
desktop requires systemd and it makes sense to me that
gnome-settings-daemon would have build tests that would ensure that
its sytemd services are working. Therefore, if it's possible for
https://reproduce.debian.net/ to also support /run , that seems to be
to be the better solution than breaking some build tests that require
/run . In this particular case, gnome-settings-daemon also runs those
tests as autopkgtests but not all packages are set up for that yet.

Thank you,
Jeremy Bícha