[Bug 992739] [NEW] backportpackage fails if no GPG present

[Graeme]

Public bug reported:

backportpackage seems to assume you always want to gpg sign a package,
and fails if gpg info isn't present. For local backporting and automated
testing, this is a completely un-necessary dependency.

Now signing changes and any dsc files...
 signfile btrfs-tools_0.19+20120328-1~oneiric1.dsc graeme <graeme at galvatron>
gpg: skipped "graeme <graeme at galvatron>": secret key not available
gpg: /tmp/debsign.58LnPsSl/btrfs-tools_0.19+20120328-1~oneiric1.dsc: clearsign failed: secret key not available
debsign: gpg error occurred!  Aborting....
debuild: fatal error at line 1269:
running debsign failed
backportpackage: Error: debuild returned 29.

It would be very good to have a flag to skip GPG signing.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: ubuntu-dev-tools 0.132ubuntu0.2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-17.30-generic 3.0.22
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-17-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu4
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue May  1 10:29:35 2012
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_CA.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: ubuntu-dev-tools
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-10-25 (189 days ago)

** Affects: ubuntu-dev-tools (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: amd64 apport-bug oneiric running-unity

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  backportpackage fails if no GPG present

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