[pkg-gnupg-maint] Bug#850269: gpgme1.0: FTBFS randomly (not enough entropy)

Santiago Vila sanvila at unex.es
Tue Jan 24 00:21:30 UTC 2017


> > I wonder, however, why the tests need to generate a key at all,
> > just to discard it after the package is built. Would not be possible
> > to use a pregenerated key for the tests?
> 
> gpgme exercises functionality of the GnuPG suite, including key
> generation.  If we were to use a pregenerated key, we might as well just
> skip the test suite :)

Well, it could be argued that the key creation part should be already
covered by the test suite of gnupg itself.

Thanks.



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