Mattia Rizzolo dixit: >I'm not sure why you still get gnupg installed. > >Btw what version are you using (of cowbuilder and pbuilder)?
I just installed (on an up-to-date sid/x32 system with latest cowbuilder/pbuilder) a fresh sid chroot (from a local mirror that’s updated daily) and get no gnupg. The full package list: Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend |/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ Name Version Architecture Description +++-======================-================-================-================================================= ii adduser 3.115 all add and remove users and groups ii apt 1.3~rc4 i386 commandline package manager ii aptitude 0.8.3-1 i386 terminal-based package manager ii aptitude-common 0.8.3-1 all architecture independent files for the aptitude p ii base-files 9.6 i386 Debian base system miscellaneous files ii base-passwd 3.5.40 i386 Debian base system master password and group file ii bash 4.3-15 i386 GNU Bourne Again SHell ii binutils 2.27-8 i386 GNU assembler, linker and binary utilities ii bsdutils 1:2.28.1-1 i386 basic utilities from 4.4BSD-Lite ii build-essential 12.2 i386 Informational list of build-essential packages ii bzip2 1.0.6-8 i386 high-quality block-sorting file compressor - util ii coreutils 8.25-2 i386 GNU core utilities ii cowdancer 0.80 i386 Copy-on-write directory tree utility ii cpp 4:6.1.1-1 i386 GNU C preprocessor (cpp) ii cpp-6 6.2.0-3 i386 GNU C preprocessor ii dash 0.5.8-2.3 i386 POSIX-compliant shell ii debconf 1.5.59 all Debian configuration management system ii debian-archive-keyring 2014.3 all GnuPG archive keys of the Debian archive ii debianutils 4.8 i386 Miscellaneous utilities specific to Debian ii diffutils 1:3.5-1 i386 File comparison utilities ii dpkg 1.18.10 i386 Debian package management system ii dpkg-dev 1.18.10 all Debian package development tools ii e2fslibs:i386 1.43.3-1 i386 ext2/ext3/ext4 file system libraries ii e2fsprogs 1.43.3-1 i386 ext2/ext3/ext4 file system utilities ii eatmydata 105-3 all Library and utilities designed to disable fsync a ii fakeroot 1.21-2 i386 tool for simulating superuser privileges ii findutils 4.6.0+git+201607 i386 utilities for finding files--find, xargs ii g++ 4:6.1.1-1 i386 GNU C++ compiler ii g++-6 6.2.0-3 i386 GNU C++ compiler ii gcc 4:6.1.1-1 i386 GNU C compiler ii gcc-4.9-base:i386 4.9.4-2 i386 GCC, the GNU Compiler Collection (base package) ii gcc-5-base:i386 5.4.1-2 i386 GCC, the GNU Compiler Collection (base package) ii gcc-6 6.2.0-3 i386 GNU C compiler ii gcc-6-base:i386 6.2.0-3 i386 GCC, the GNU Compiler Collection (base package) ii gpgv 2.1.15-2 i386 GNU privacy guard - signature verification tool ii grep 2.25-6 i386 GNU grep, egrep and fgrep ii gzip 1.6-5 i386 GNU compression utilities ii hostname 3.18 i386 utility to set/show the host name or domain name ii init-system-helpers 1.42 all helper tools for all init systems ii initscripts 2.88dsf-59.8 i386 scripts for initializing and shutting down the sy ii insserv 1.14.0-5.4 i386 boot sequence organizer using LSB init.d script d ii libacl1:i386 2.2.52-3 i386 Access control list shared library ii libapt-pkg5.0:i386 1.3~rc4 i386 package management runtime library ii libasan3:i386 6.2.0-3 i386 AddressSanitizer -- a fast memory error detector ii libatomic1:i386 6.2.0-3 i386 support library providing __atomic built-in funct ii libattr1:i386 1:2.4.47-2 i386 Extended attribute shared library ii libaudit-common 1:2.6.6-1 all Dynamic library for security auditing - common fi ii libaudit1:i386 1:2.6.6-1 i386 Dynamic library for security auditing ii libblkid1:i386 2.28.1-1 i386 block device ID library ii libboost-filesystem1.6 1.61.0+dfsg-2.1 i386 filesystem operations (portable paths, iteration ii libboost-iostreams1.61 1.61.0+dfsg-2.1 i386 Boost.Iostreams Library ii libboost-system1.61.0: 1.61.0+dfsg-2.1 i386 Operating system (e.g. diagnostics support) libra ii libbz2-1.0:i386 1.0.6-8 i386 high-quality block-sorting file compressor librar ii libc-bin 2.24-2 i386 GNU C Library: Binaries ii libc-dev-bin 2.24-2 i386 GNU C Library: Development binaries ii libc6:i386 2.24-2 i386 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libc6-dev:i386 2.24-2 i386 GNU C Library: Development Libraries and Header F ii libcap-ng0:i386 0.7.7-3 i386 An alternate POSIX capabilities library ii libcc1-0:i386 6.2.0-3 i386 GCC cc1 plugin for GDB ii libcilkrts5:i386 6.2.0-3 i386 Intel Cilk Plus language extensions (runtime) ii libcomerr2:i386 1.43.3-1 i386 common error description library ii libcwidget3v5:i386 0.5.17-4+b1 i386 high-level terminal interface library for C++ (ru ii libdb5.3:i386 5.3.28-12 i386 Berkeley v5.3 Database Libraries [runtime] ii libdebconfclient0:i386 0.215 i386 Debian Configuration Management System (C-impleme ii libdpkg-perl 1.18.10 all Dpkg perl modules ii libeatmydata1:i386 105-3 i386 Library and utilities to disable fsync and friend ii libfakeroot:i386 1.21-2 i386 tool for simulating superuser privileges - shared ii libfdisk1:i386 2.28.1-1 i386 fdisk partitioning library ii libgcc-6-dev:i386 6.2.0-3 i386 GCC support library (development files) ii libgcc1:i386 1:6.2.0-3 i386 GCC support library ii libgcrypt20:i386 1.7.3-1 i386 LGPL Crypto library - runtime library ii libgdbm3:i386 1.8.3-14 i386 GNU dbm database routines (runtime version) ii libgmp10:i386 2:6.1.1+dfsg-1 i386 Multiprecision arithmetic library ii libgomp1:i386 6.2.0-3 i386 GCC OpenMP (GOMP) support library ii libgpg-error0:i386 1.24-1 i386 library for common error values and messages in G ii libisl15:i386 0.17.1-1 i386 manipulating sets and relations of integer points ii libitm1:i386 6.2.0-3 i386 GNU Transactional Memory Library ii liblz4-1:i386 0.0~r131-2 i386 Fast LZ compression algorithm library - runtime ii liblzma5:i386 5.1.1alpha+20120 i386 XZ-format compression library ii libmount1:i386 2.28.1-1 i386 device mounting library ii libmpc3:i386 1.0.3-1 i386 multiple precision complex floating-point library ii libmpfr4:i386 3.1.4-2 i386 multiple precision floating-point computation ii libmpx2:i386 6.2.0-3 i386 Intel memory protection extensions (runtime) ii libncurses5:i386 6.0+20160625-1 i386 shared libraries for terminal handling ii libncursesw5:i386 6.0+20160625-1 i386 shared libraries for terminal handling (wide char ii libpam-modules:i386 1.1.8-3.3 i386 Pluggable Authentication Modules for PAM ii libpam-modules-bin 1.1.8-3.3 i386 Pluggable Authentication Modules for PAM - helper ii libpam-runtime 1.1.8-3.3 all Runtime support for the PAM library ii libpam0g:i386 1.1.8-3.3 i386 Pluggable Authentication Modules library ii libpcre3:i386 2:8.39-2 i386 Old Perl 5 Compatible Regular Expression Library ii libperl5.22:i386 5.22.2-5 i386 shared Perl library ii libquadmath0:i386 6.2.0-3 i386 GCC Quad-Precision Math Library ii libselinux1:i386 2.5-3 i386 SELinux runtime shared libraries ii libsemanage-common 2.5-1 all Common files for SELinux policy management librar ii libsemanage1:i386 2.5-1 i386 SELinux policy management library ii libsepol1:i386 2.5-1 i386 SELinux library for manipulating binary security ii libsigc++-2.0-0v5:i386 2.8.0-2 i386 type-safe Signal Framework for C++ - runtime ii libsmartcols1:i386 2.28.1-1 i386 smart column output alignment library ii libsqlite3-0:i386 3.14.1-1 i386 SQLite 3 shared library ii libss2:i386 1.43.3-1 i386 command-line interface parsing library ii libstdc++-6-dev:i386 6.2.0-3 i386 GNU Standard C++ Library v3 (development files) ii libstdc++6:i386 6.2.0-3 i386 GNU Standard C++ Library v3 ii libsystemd0:i386 231-5 i386 systemd utility library ii libtinfo5:i386 6.0+20160625-1 i386 shared low-level terminfo library for terminal ha ii libubsan0:i386 6.2.0-3 i386 UBSan -- undefined behaviour sanitizer (runtime) ii libudev1:i386 231-5 i386 libudev shared library ii libustr-1.0-1:i386 1.0.4-5 i386 Micro string library: shared library ii libuuid1:i386 2.28.1-1 i386 Universally Unique ID library ii libxapian22v5:i386 1.2.23-1 i386 Search engine library ii linux-libc-dev:i386 4.7.2-1 i386 Linux support headers for userspace development ii login 1:4.2-3.1 i386 system login tools ii lsb-base 9.20160629 all Linux Standard Base init script functionality ii make 4.1-9 i386 utility for directing compilation ii mawk 1.3.3-17 i386 a pattern scanning and text processing language ii mount 2.28.1-1 i386 tools for mounting and manipulating filesystems ii multiarch-support 2.24-2 i386 Transitional package to ensure multiarch compatib ii ncurses-base 6.0+20160625-1 all basic terminal type definitions ii ncurses-bin 6.0+20160625-1 i386 terminal-related programs and man pages ii passwd 1:4.2-3.1 i386 change and administer password and group data ii patch 2.7.5-1 i386 Apply a diff file to an original ii perl 5.22.2-5 i386 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction and Report Lang ii perl-base 5.22.2-5 i386 minimal Perl system ii perl-modules-5.22 5.22.2-5 all Core Perl modules ii sed 4.2.2-8 i386 The GNU sed stream editor ii sensible-utils 0.0.9 all Utilities for sensible alternative selection ii startpar 0.59-3.1 i386 run processes in parallel and multiplex their out ii sysv-rc 2.88dsf-59.8 all System-V-like runlevel change mechanism ii sysvinit-core 2.88dsf-59.8 i386 System-V-like init utilities ii sysvinit-utils 2.88dsf-59.8 i386 System-V-like utilities ii tar 1.29b-1 i386 GNU version of the tar archiving utility ii tzdata 2016f-1 all time zone and daylight-saving time data ii util-linux 2.28.1-1 i386 miscellaneous system utilities ii xz-utils 5.1.1alpha+20120 i386 XZ-format compression utilities ii zlib1g:i386 1:1.2.8.dfsg-2+b i386 compression library - runtime As you can see, redundant gcc-X.Y-base, but otherwise minimal modulo apt and (ugh… didn’t we have pbuilder-satisfydepends-apt submitted as patch some time ago?) aptitude and its dependencies. bye, //mirabilos -- “The final straw, to be honest, was probably my amazement at the volume of petty, peevish whingeing certain of your peers are prone to dish out on d-devel, telling each other how to talk more like a pretty princess, as though they were performing some kind of public service.” (someone to me, privately)