FYI: The --keyring function is broken if gnupg isn't installed.
It actually fails quite gracefully if gpgv isn't found. Would this do? (I hesitate to add a runtime dependency.) Index: debootstrap-1.0.23.ebuild =================================================================== RCS file: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/dev-util/debootstrap/debootstrap-1.0.23.ebuild,v retrieving revision 1.4 diff -u -B -r1.4 debootstrap-1.0.23.ebuild --- debootstrap-1.0.23.ebuild 13 Jul 2010 02:00:19 -0000 1.4 +++ debootstrap-1.0.23.ebuild 17 Jul 2010 16:41:21 -0000 @@ -35,3 +35,8 @@ dodoc TODO doman debootstrap.8 } + +pkg_postinst() { + elog "To check Release files against a keyring" + elog " (--keyring=K), please install app-crypt/gnupg." +}
your call as maintainer.
OK, that patch is in 23-r1. Thanks for reporting.