[request-tracker-maintainers] Bug#839580: Bug#839580: Bug#839580: request-tracker4: FTBFS in testing (failed tests)

[Dominic Hargreaves]

On Thu, Nov 24, 2016 at 12:01:20PM +0000, Dominic Hargreaves wrote:
> Firstly, I'm sorry that you didn't get any response on this, and thank
> you for pushing this issue. I must confess to being rather frustrated
> by the situation as well as not having any spare cycles for Debian
> work for a while.
> 
> It seems like at least for RT, any update to a version of
> libgnupg-interface-perl which drops support for gpg1 is going to be
> quite invasive, because the RT test suite depends on a particular
> version of gpg. I note you didn't get any response on the gnupg upstream
> portability issue - was there any other progress on that front? It
> would certainly be much easier for upstream to take the patchset if
> it didn't break compatibility with GPG1 (even if we might be able to
> do so in Debian).
> 
> I will try and do some testing with RT and the version of this pacakge
> in experimental. Do you have any idea whether the other rdeps are
> similarly sensitive?
> 
> FTR, I've just filed #845534 about another related issue which I failed
> to spot; RT is currently configured to use gpg1 for tests, but the default
> (which is now gpg2) at runtime, and that probably doesn't work.
> 
> (GPG isn't that commonly used in RT, so I wouldn't be surprised if this
> hasn't been road tested in sid :( )

FTR: I've filed #845781 against libgnupg-interface-perl, which is
probably the right place to continue this discussion.

Best,
Dominic.