[pkg-gnupg-maint] Bug#834683: fixed in mini-buildd 1.0.17

[Santiago Vila]

On Mon, Sep 12, 2016 at 07:34:09PM +0200, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:

> An even easier approach might be to do the following within the build:
> 
>   * ln -sf /dev/urandom /dev/random
> 
> why would we need the blocking kernel RNG in the buildd anyway?

Either that, or maybe a build-depends on a package specifically
created to do that (as I'm not sure we could really ask all buildd
operators to make the symlink permanently).

A good solution should be automatic and not need manual intervention,
and should be independent of the machine on which the build is done.

> Lastly, one other option for gnupg at least is to patch upstream to use
> --debug-quick-random in the build-time test.
> 
> do any of these options sound more appealing than the others?

I didn't know about --debug-quick-random, it seems perfect to me.

Stephan, do you think it would be possible to patch mini-buildd so
that --debug-quick-random is added to gnupg command line, but only
when the package is doing the tests following the build?

Thanks.