Hello. Decided to actually try debbisect today:
$ ./myscript
good timestamp was actually bad -- see debbisect.log.bad for details
$ cat debbisect.log.bad
/usr/share/doc/devscripts/examples/debbisect_buildsrc.sh: 11: mmdebstrap: not found
I think it's ok that mmdebstrap is not in Depends (devscripts has a lot of stuff,
and it's even theoretically possible to use debbisect without mmdebstrap).
I suspect modifying debbisect_buildsrc.sh will not help here, because
debbisect will probably silence its output no matter what.
However, checking when a given package started (or stopped) to ftbfs is
one of the things debbisect was designed for, and I guess most people
will use debbisect in combination with mmdebstrap, so maybe debbisect
could be the one to give a warning to the user if mmdebstrap is not
present.
Thanks.