Move from Debian Jessie to Debian Stretch for our Linux builds

Mozilla is basing their Linux builds of the ESR 78 series on Debian Jessie and we switched recently to that, too. However, given the EOL situation of Jessie we should investigate moving to something newer, e.g. Debian Stretch.

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Maybe we can do that with the switch to ESR91.

mentioned in issue #40305 (closed)

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mentioned in issue tor-browser#40466 (closed)

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It seems RHEL/CentOS 7 is using glibc 2.17. Debian Stretch is using glibc 2.24, so if we switch to that maybe it won't work on RHEL/CentOS 7. Although I don't know if we have many RHEL/CentOS 7 users.

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I wonder why this got closed. This is not done yet, re-opening.

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@richard: tagging you here. Not sure whether that's something for the esr102 transition...

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