[Reproducible-commits] [blog] 01/01: Add link to reprotest package and debootstrap bug

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commit 0eb99a0cd6c7ab6fcc07cbbd3c997d04fa80adaf
Author: Ceridwen <ceridwenv at gmail.com>
Date:   Wed Jun 29 10:06:23 2016 -0400

    Add link to reprotest package and debootstrap bug
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 drafts/people/ceridwen/reprotest_week5.mdwn | 20 ++++++++++++--------
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drafts/people/ceridwen/reprotest_week5.mdwn b/drafts/people/ceridwen/reprotest_week5.mdwn
index 7977300..3b50e5d 100644
--- a/drafts/people/ceridwen/reprotest_week5.mdwn
+++ b/drafts/people/ceridwen/reprotest_week5.mdwn
@@ -4,7 +4,9 @@
 Author: ceridwen
 
 The 0.1 alpha release of reprotest has been accepted into Debian
-unstable, so it should be available for install now.
+unstable and is available for install at
+[packages.debian.org](https://packages.debian.org/sid/reprotest) or
+through apt.
 
 I've been working on redesigning reprotest so that it runs commands
 through autopkgtest's adt_testbed interface.  For the most part, I
@@ -25,13 +27,15 @@ while I looked into
 footprint small, I decided that for now this would take too much work
 and decided to go straight to the autopkgtest recommendations for
 building containers, [mk-sbuild](https://wiki.debian.org/mk-sbuild)
-and [vmdebootstrap](https://wiki.debian.org/vmdebootstrap).  This
-means that to get the tests run requires some manual setup at the
-moment.  In the long run, I'd like to improve that, but it's not an
-immediate priority.  While working on adding tests for the other
-containers supported by autopkgtest, I also converted to
-[py.test](https://pytest.org/latest/index.html) so that I could use
-[fixtures](https://pytest.org/latest/fixture.html) and
+and [vmdebootstrap](https://wiki.debian.org/vmdebootstrap).  (I also
+ended up discovering a
+(bug)[https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/debootstrap/+bug/1596761]
+in debootstrap.)  This means that to get the tests run requires some
+manual setup at the moment.  In the long run, I'd like to improve
+that, but it's not an immediate priority.  While working on adding
+tests for the other containers supported by autopkgtest, I also
+converted to [py.test](https://pytest.org/latest/index.html) so that I
+could use [fixtures](https://pytest.org/latest/fixture.html) and
 [parametrization](https://pytest.org/latest/parametrize.html) to run
 the Cartesian product of each variation with each container.
 

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