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Fast Debian package builds using sbuild, mmdebstrap and apt-cacher-ng

Setting up fast Debian package builds using sbuild, mmdebstrap and apt-cacher-ng.
In this post I will give a quick tutorial on how to set up fast Debian package builds using sbuild with mmdebstrap and apt-cacher-ng.
The usual tool for building Debian packages is dpkg-buildpackage, or a user-friendly wrapper like debuild, and while these are geat tools, if you want to upload something to the Debian archive they lack the required separation from the system they are run on to ensure that your packaging also works on a different system.

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