>> While the build farm remains offline this might be a reasonable
>> solution.
>> I may end up restricting the nightly builds to Ubuntu Trusty and Debian
>> Wheezy for now.
>
> Tim,
> if it could be useful, I could build Debian packages of the GIT repo on my
> own computer (using pbuilder) and then upload them somewhere on the TDE
> servers, so they would be available as a temporary replacement until we
> come up with a solution for the original problem.

Thank you for the offer!  While the backup build systems *should* be able
to handle the load of only building for Trusty and Wheezy (once I get them
online), if they fail or end up building too slowly I may have to take you
up on this.

Tim