diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 28959029..b111ba90 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -1,8 +1,10 @@
 ostree (2019.2-2) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium
 
   * d/salsa-ci.yml: Request standard CI on salsa.debian.org
-    - Disable build-time tests with DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nocheck for now:
-      they don't currently work in the salsa-ci infrastructure.
+    - Disable build-time tests with DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nocheck for now.
+      They don't currently work in the salsa-ci infrastructure, but I
+      can't reproduce and debug the failure in a local Docker container.
+    - Similarly, disable the autopkgtest for now.
 
  -- Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org>  Sun, 23 Jun 2019 20:07:33 +0100
 
diff --git a/debian/salsa-ci.yml b/debian/salsa-ci.yml
index 1ee604a7..5bdebbb3 100644
--- a/debian/salsa-ci.yml
+++ b/debian/salsa-ci.yml
@@ -2,5 +2,12 @@ include:
   - https://salsa.debian.org/salsa-ci-team/pipeline/raw/master/salsa-ci.yml
   - https://salsa.debian.org/salsa-ci-team/pipeline/raw/master/pipeline-jobs.yml
 
+autopkgtest:
+  # https://github.com/ostreedev/ostree/issues/1885
+  except:
+    variables:
+      - $DISABLED == "https://github.com/ostreedev/ostree/issues/1885"
+
 variables:
+  # https://github.com/ostreedev/ostree/issues/1885
   DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS: 'nocheck'