[tor-bugs] #10125 [Tor bundles/installation]: Remove Ubuntu as dependency for reproducible builds

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#10125: Remove Ubuntu as dependency for reproducible builds
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     Reporter:  bastik                    |      Owner:  erinn
         Type:  task                      |     Status:  new
     Priority:  normal                    |  Milestone:
    Component:  Tor bundles/installation  |    Version:
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Comment (by erinn):

 I believe one of the main limitations to doing this on plain Debian is
 that python-vm-builder (one of the dependencies) is not available there
 and is only available in Ubuntu. The limitation to doing it for other
 distros is that they don't have debootstrap which it uses to create the
 build chroots. The python-vm-builder thing might be surmountable for
 "porting" it to Debian but the other parts involve extending Gitian in a
 way that is probably out of scope for the Tor project, although certainly
 a neat idea that I hope gets more exposure. I think Mozilla is using
 CentOS or Fedora or some other RPM-based distro and given their recent
 interest in deterministic builds they might be a good candidate for that
 part of it.

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