[buildd-tools-devel] Bug#843137: Bug#843137: sbuild: fails to deal with sid chroots (missing gpg)

[Cyril Brulebois]

Johannes Schauer <josch at debian.org> (2016-11-04):
> the version you specified seems to indicate that you are using sbuild
> from Jessie.

Exactly.

> That version expects gpg to be installed inside the chroot. In the
> past (before apt 1.3~exp1) apt would depend on gnupg and thus every
> chroot would automatically have gpg installed. So this is why your
> Debian unstable chroot doesn't come with gpg. The problem is fixed
> since sbuild 0.67.0 which makes signing the internal dummy repository
> optional.
> 
> Unfortunately, for other reasons, you have to start using sbuild from
> backports if you want to build in a Debian unstable chroot. The reason
> for that is that even if you now manually install gpg into your
> chroot, the gnupg version will add several incompatibilities which are
> also only addressed in more recent sbuild releases.

Backports is not for fixing bugs in stable. If you need help preparing a
stable update to address this, please say so.


KiBi.
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