Bug#835075: [Reproducible-builds] Bug#835075: libmail-gnupg-perl: FTBFS: Failed 1/10 test programs. 0/4 subtests failed.

[Daniel Kahn Gillmor]

On Thu 2016-09-01 10:52:47 -0400, gregor herrmann wrote:
> On Tue, 30 Aug 2016 08:05:14 -0400, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:
> Maybe we should think about this for the test suite temporarily.
> Or maybe we can trick gpg-agent into working during build / in a
> chroot somehow. And stopping it afterwards. Etc. ...
> Probably the latter, since the tests work in general ...
>
> --allow-preset-passphrase for the agent and gpg-preset-passphrase(1)
> look interesting.

An even better way to work around pinentry-related failures in test
suites is to supply a phony pinentry and point to it.  This ensures that
the gpg codepaths in use in the test suite are the same ones that are
used by the code in operation, with a change only to the pinentry.

GnuPG itself does this with a minimal fake-pinentry.c for its own test
suite:

   https://anonscm.debian.org/git/pkg-gnupg/gnupg2.git/tree/tests/openpgp/fake-pinentry.c

I imagine for perl we'd want to use a fake-pinentry written in perl so
that we don't introduce new system-level dependencies for the test
suite.

I'll take a crack at this for libmail-gnupg-perl and see if i can sort
something out.

          --dkg
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