On 2023-11-02 Samuel Thibault <sthiba...@debian.org> wrote:
> Source: pinentry
> Severity: normal
> Tags: patch

> Hello,

> When bootstrapping a new port, buildds needs to use gnupg to sign
> packages, which depends on gpg-agent, which depends on pinentry. But
> pinentry build-deps on qt, gtk etc. which we don't really want to
> bootstrap by hand. The attached patch adds build profiles that can be
> used to easily build pinentry-tty, then install buildds, and let them
> build the rest.

> (I had to switch the no-secret/secret configuration, otherwise the
> pinentry.info file doesn't get found in the nogtk profile)
[...]

Good morning Samuel,

the patch adds 5 Build Profiles which adds quite a bit in length to
debian/rules while the rationale given is for having something like
pkg.pinentry.minimal. Could you provide a little bit of background?

TIA, cu Andreas

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