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

[Raphael Hertzog]

On Fri, 04 Nov 2016, Johannes Schauer wrote:
>  2. the amount of effort required to cope with the changed situation in stretch
>     (especially with respect to gpg) is huge. The existing patches are several
>     hundred lines long. Help would indeed be appreciated to backport these
>     patches. I fought with the gnupg situation for months to get it right and
>     make things both forward and backward compatible. Lots of work is needed to
>     do this right and test everything for a stable update. Unfortunately, this
>     is time I currently don't have. I would be available though for guidance
>     for anybody who's willing to give this a go.

An easy fix might be to modifiy sbuild-createchroot to install gpg and to
document this requirement?

Cheers,
-- 
Raphaël Hertzog ◈ Debian Developer

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