[buildd-tools-devel] Bug#836940: Bug#836940: cowbuilder, sbuild: should behave identically in regard to default gnupg installation

[Santiago Vila]

On Wed, 7 Sep 2016, Markus Koschany wrote:

> Now we all agree that a package that fails to build
> on the official buildd network is RC buggy. But what about packages that
> neither fail there nor locally in a clean cowbuilder environment but
> under some obscure circumstances in a local sbuild environment?

For the record: This is a false dichotomy, because xmlgraphics-commons
didn't fail in the official buildds. it didn't fail in a
what-you-call-clean-but-it-was-not-really-clean cowbuilder
environment, but the circumstances in which it failed were not
obscrure at all (as explained).

It seems to me that you are looking for a generic passport to
downgrade FTBFS bugs. Please don't put policy violations and
bugs that we still don't know how to reproduce in the same bag.

Thanks.