[buildd-tools-devel] Bug#840575: Bug#840575: sbuild bpo: uses non-available option gnupg --pinentry-mode

[Thomas Goirand]

On 10/13/2016 12:58 PM, Johannes Schauer wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Quoting Thomas Goirand (2016-10-12 23:42:15)
>> Dear backport maintainer,
>>
>> Since the upload of sbuild 0.71.0-2~bpo8+1 to stable backport, running
>> sbuild-update --keygen leads to this error message:
>>
>> gpg: Invalid option "--pinentry-mode"
>>
>> Indeed, it looks like --pinentry-mode isn't available in gnupg 1.4.18-7 which
>> is in Jessie. Since there's no backport of gnupg 2.1.x, this makes sbuild from
>> jessie-bpo completely broken, considering one need to run sbuild-update --keygen
>> to start using sbuild.
> 
> You do not need to run sbuild-update --keygen to start using sbuild with the
> sbuild versions after 0.69.0.
> 
> So until this bug is fixed, just don't run that command.

Thanks for the hint. I've edited https://wiki.debian.org/sbuild to add
this information.

Cheers,

Thomas Goirand (zigo)