bzr-buildpackage fails GPG signing

[Jeff Lane ]

Something in 14.04 has changed with regards to GPG signing of packages.

I have a package I just tried to build locally that has a changelog timestamp like so:

-- Jeff Lane <email address hidden> Thu, 22 May 2014 12:15:56 -0400

Admittedly, it's been a while since I last tried or needed to build a package locally, but I don't recall ever seeing this issue.

I kept getting errors with GPG signing like this:

Now signing changes and any dsc files...
 signfile plainbox-provider-opencompute-testing_0.1.dsc Jeff Lane <email address hidden>
gpg: skipped "Jeff Lane <email address hidden>": secret key not available
gpg: /tmp/debsign.8leq9PBu/plainbox-provider-opencompute-testing_0.1.dsc: clearsign failed: secret key not available
debsign: gpg error occurred! Aborting....
debuild: fatal error at line 1283:
running debsign failed
bzr: ERROR: The build failed.

Inside my key, I have several addresses listed and nicknames for each like so:

uid Jeff Lane (Primary Canonical) <email address hidden>

After a bit of digging, it seems that I have to now include the nickname in teh control file to get gpg signing to work.

Like this:

 -- Jeff Lane (Primary Canonical) <email address hidden> Thu, 22 May 2014 12:15:56 -0400

This is unacceptable, the nick does NOT need to be preserved in debian/changelog.

This is the first time I've used bzr-buildpackage, I've typically just used debuild with -k to specify a key to use.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: bzr-builddeb 2.8.7ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-26.48-generic 3.13.11
Uname: Linux 3.13.0-26-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.2
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Mon Jun 9 17:33:06 2014
InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-03-15 (816 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Alpha amd64 (20120307)
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: bzr-builddeb
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to trusty on 2014-04-20 (50 days ago)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[James Westby (james-w)]

Hi,

Does signing succeed if you run

  bzr-buildpackage -- -k$KEYID

?

Thanks,

James

[Néstor Acevedo (sainthyoga2003)]

Hi, a little late from my part but that last one works for me.

[Igor Zinovyev (zinigor)]

Sorry to revive this thread, but shouldn't builddeb honor the `DEBSIGN_KEYID` environment variable and use the provided ID?