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

[Julien Cristau]

On Thu, Sep  8, 2016 at 13:35:51 +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:

> 1) packages failing to build when gnupg is not installed in the chroot.
> gnupg is priority: important, and is not installed by debootstrap
> --variant=buildd.
> 
> 2) packages failing to build when tzdata is not installed in the chroot.
> tzdata is priority: required, and it is installed by debootstrap
> --variant=buildd. But since it is not essential, not build-essential,
> and not a dependency of essential or build-essential packages, it can
> safely be removed (e.g. with debfoster -o MaxPriority=required).  I
> count about 150 packages failing in that case.
> 
> Both classes of bugs are valid bugs. However, I'm wondering if it's OK
> to consider both classes as release critical.
> 
I think they should both be serious, and tzdata's priority should be
fixed up by ftpmaster.

Cheers,
Julien