Bug#1103931: gnupg2: Please don't build-depend on swtpm on unsupported architectures

On 2025-04-23 John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, 2025-04-23 at 01:12 +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> > gnupg2 is BD-Unstallable on a number of architectures because it now depends
> > on swtpm which is not available on all architectures due to various reasons:
> > 
> > https://buildd.debian.org/status/package.php?p=gnupg2
> > 
> > Can you disable swtpm on these architectures?

> This is obviously related to TPM2 support being enabled in #1103931 [1].

> Could you modify debian/control and debian/rules to enable TPM2 support
> on the supported architectures only? gnupg2 is an important package and
> therefore should not be blocked on certain architectures due to these TPM2
> limitations.

Hello,

I will take a look. I would like to see 2.4 transition to testing before
tackling this in unstable. (There is experimental as playing ground.)

Also I am not to hot about hardcoding the list of archs where swtpm is
available in debian/control but do not see a better alternatives. - Any
ideas?

cu Andreas