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 Support Debian LTS: http://www.freexian.com/services/debian-lts.html Learn to master Debian: http://debian-handbook.info/get/