Note, that building a Xenial pbuilder environment works with the commands and configuration above (with DISTRIBUTION=xenial in /etc/pbuilerrc). So, apt-key seems to still need gpg in Bionic and Cosmic, and apt-key either needs a fix or have the dependency on gpg.
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