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Disable build_path variation by default in reprotest job

Santiago R.R. requested to merge santiago/pipeline:reprotest-disable-build-path into master

Quoting Holger's comments about why the build_path should be disabled by default:

The build path is recorded in the .buildinfo file and can be reused when rebuilding a package.

Reproducibility while varying the build path has no advantages in the real world (as oppposed to the old CI tests on tests.r-b.o) because there's no benefit from being able to vary the build path, while on the other hand there are disadvantages: hundreds of packages become unreproducible, but just because we artificially make them so. If we (re)use the known build path, they are/become reproducible. And this is what we want and thus we don't vary the build path any more.

And that's why the salsa CI pipeline also should not vary the build path by default.

Closes: #368 (closed)

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