dhelper or gnupg bug? which is it?

[Jonathan Walther <krooger@debian.org>]

dhelper doesn't seem to work with pgp anymore, it wants gpg.  This is
fine... But it doesn't recognize my pgp RSA key, and so doesn't complete the
dpkg-buildpackage.

So I uninstall gnupg, figuring dhelper will revert to pgp.  No joy.  Heres
the dump:

dh_gencontrol
dh_builddeb
dpkg-deb: building package `ghostcore' in `../ghostcore_0.9.7-1_all.deb'.
 signfile ghostcore_0.9.7-1.dsc
/usr/bin/dpkg-buildpackage: gpg: command not found


Then I *reinstalled* gnupg, and heres the dump:

dh_builddeb
dpkg-deb: building package `ghostcore' in `../ghostcore_0.9.7-1_all.deb'.
 signfile ghostcore_0.9.7-1.dsc
gpg: skipped `Jonathan Walther <krooger@debian.org>': secret key not
available
gpg: [stdin]: clearsign failed: secret key not available

Now, I could probably go through a whole procedure of setting up gnupg and
making it work.  But is it really necessary?  Couldn't gnupg, on
installation, nicely go and do the "conversion" for each user with a ~/.pgp 
directory? In the same way, I'd like update-menus to recurse through the
users and apply itself for their sakes if they have a ~/.menu directory, but
thats neither here nor there.

Well, anyways, cheerio.  Its been a long night.

Jonathan