Am 17.02.2015 um 14:31 schrieb Werner Koch <w...@gnupg.org>:

> GnuPG's speedo build system also downloads stuff via the Makefile but it
> verifies the checksums before proceeding. The checksums are taken from a
> public file which has a detached signature and the public key for that
> is one of the GnuPG release signing keys.

While this is much better from a security point of view, it still means that 
building needs an internet connection. It would be nice to be able to build it 
on an air-gapped machine, which I guess is quite a common use case for GnuPG.

To be fair, though, I never noticed that until you mentioned it :).

--
Jonathan
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