Package: cowbuilder, sbuild Severity: normal Hello cowbuilder and sbuild maintainers,
I am assigning this bug report to both of you in order to determine the best course of action. Please feel free to reassign and change the severity as appropriate. The package xmlgraphics-commons started recently failing to build from source in a clean sbuild environment although it was built successfully on the buildd network a few months ago. This behavior cannot be observed in a clean cowbuilder environment though. [1] The reasoning for the FTBFS is a missing dependency on gnupg which was always present in default cowbuilder and sbuild environments until recently. According to [2] this behavioral change was introduced by the apt maintainers, more accurately in version 1.3~exp1 of apt. * move gnupg|gnupg2 from apt Depends to Recommends This is causing build failures in sbuild now, not only for xmlgraphics-commons but for all packages that relied on gnupg being installed by default. Please clarify if 1. This change should be reverted in apt to restore the old behavior 2. or if sbuild should install gnupg by default 3. or if cowbuilder should not install gnupg by default I think it is important that all maintainers can rely on the same default chroot environment to test their packages before uploading to avoid possible build failures. Thanks for maintaining these important tools and keep up the good work. Regards, Markus [1] https://bugs.debian.org/834744 [2] https://bugs.debian.org/834898#39
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