diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 8ae7b4a1..121bd892 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+livecd-rootfs (2.539) cosmic; urgency=medium
+
+  * Stop building buildd chroots with --xattrs until we move to python3.
+
+ -- Adam Conrad <adconrad@ubuntu.com>  Thu, 20 Sep 2018 02:52:10 -0600
+
 livecd-rootfs (2.538) cosmic; urgency=medium
 
   * Add a buildd subproject.
diff --git a/live-build/auto/build b/live-build/auto/build
index 9d901bc7..70088cf1 100755
--- a/live-build/auto/build
+++ b/live-build/auto/build
@@ -505,7 +505,7 @@ elif [ "$SUBPROJECT" = buildd ]; then
 	# buildd chroots about twice as fast as xz and about five times as
 	# fast as bzip2.
 	tar --transform='s,^binary,chroot-autobuild,' \
-		--sort=name --numeric-owner --xattrs \
+		--sort=name --numeric-owner \
 		-czf "$PREFIX.rootfs.tar.gz" binary
 fi