It appears that the debian-archive-keyring.gpg does not contain the current key used by Debian to sign!
Most probably the change of new stable distribution in Debian resulted in a new key that it is not yet included in the package. I had the same problem (I use pbuilder in Ubuntu Karmic, with the configuration outlined at the pbuilder howto wiki) and I did the following: 1. I got the key from the Ubuntu keyserver with gpg2. Procedure: In the search box of page http://keyserver.ubuntu.com:11371/ enter 'debian archive' and select the key with data: pub 4096R/473041FA 2010-08-27 uid Debian Archive Automatic Signing Key (6.0/squeeze) <ftpmas...@debian.org> Write down the key id (473041FA) 2. I added the key to /etc/apt/trusted.gpg, with apt-key, Procedure (note the hyphen at the end for apt-key to use stdin): gpg2 -a --export 473041FA | sudo apt-key add - 3. I modified my ~/.pbuilderrc to use --keyring=/etc/apt/trusted.gpg for DEBOOTSTRAPOPTS when building with a Debian target. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/599695 Title: pbuilder always passes Ubuntu keyring, even when creating e.g. Debian environments -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs