Bug#977512: src:libconfig-identity-perl: Build-Depends on old gnupg1, but could use gnupg2

Chris Hofstaedtler zeha at debian.org
Thu Dec 17 21:59:31 GMT 2020


* gregor herrmann <gregoa at debian.org> [201215 23:37]:
> On Tue, 15 Dec 2020 22:43:26 +0100, Chris Hofstaedtler wrote:
> 
> > a very long time ago, Build-Depends were changed so gnupg1 is explicitly
> > used, due to CPAN RT#112569. However, upstream has apparently fixed the
> > tests in 0.0019 - this is noted in the same RT bug.
> > Please consider switching the build dependency to gnupg2.
> 
> Thanks for the bug report!
> 
> Some quick thoughts:
> - OOC: Is gnupg1 going away, or what is the reason for this proposal?

I have asked about this, but nobody is really pushing for gnupg1 to
go away. However, it currently FTBFS, so lets see if it will be in
bullseye.

> - I guess rather gnupg and not gnupg2 (the latter is a transitional
>   package with just a dependency and a symlink gpg2 -> gpg; and the
>   test uses `gpg').

Right.

> - I wrote in the old changelog message:
[..]

> Alright, changes pushed to https://salsa.debian.org/perl-team/modules/packages/libconfig-identity-perl.git
> but I wouldn't mind a second (yours or someone else's :)) pair of
> eyes before uploading.

Thanks for taking care of this. I didn't get to look at your changes
before the upload :-/

The "save test data" machinery looks correct to me. Even though I
might have written the logic inverted - the double negation took me
me some time to understand.

Thanks!
Chris



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