[pkg-gnupg-maint] [Reproducible-builds] Bug#835465: python-apt: FTBFS: AptKeyError: recv from 'hkp://localhost:19191' failed for '0xa1bD8E9D78F7FE5C3E65D8AF8B48AD6246925553'

[Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn]

On Fri, 2 Sep 2016, Werner Koch wrote:
> On Fri,  2 Sep 2016 10:55, cristian.ionescu-idbohrn at axis.com said:
>
> > 	For historical reasons it is also possible to start dirmngr in
> > 	a system daemon  mode  which  uses  a different directory
> > 	layout.  However, this mode is deprecated and may eventually
> > 	be removed.
> >
> > Will the daemon be used in this context?
>
> No.  That feature as actually been removed recently.

Well, not in unstable/sid:

	# dpkg -L dirmngr | grep bin/dirmngr
	/usr/bin/dirmngr
	/usr/bin/dirmngr-client

The change, I notice, in both sid and strech (compared to jessie) is
that the sysv initscript vanished, but gained a systemd user service
/usr/lib/systemd/user/dirmngr.service in sid.  I take that as the
dirnmgr daemon should _not_ be run by the root user.  Jessie starts it
per default.

> > What about the scenario when one must go through a very strict
> > proxy to reach the net?
>
> dirmngr has options for this.  And well, it can also use tor as the
> universal proxy ;-)

>From what the man pages reveal, the daemon has those options.  I can't
see the dirmngr-client does.

So, I may not have to worry about more configuration knobbs when used
through python-apt, do I?  How will dirmngr be used by apt then, now
that it is installed as a dependency by python-apt?


Cheers,

-- 
Cristian