Source: gnupg2 Severity: normal X-Debbugs-Cc: [email protected] gnupg is a big meta package pulling in all sorts of weird stuff people don't want by default on their machine, like a wks server.
That wks server in experimental now pulls in a mail transport agent. Hence installing gpg for example pulls in gnupg by Recommends, and then the wks server and then the mail transport agent. Ugh. It stands to reason that gnupg2 should have: 1. gnupg should move to the metapackages section 2. All Recommends on gnupg should be removed, we don't want that installed by default. 3. gpg should Recommends keyboxd and dirmngr as they will frequently be needed when using gpg And then we should clean up all reverse dependencies to say gpg. I think I plan to do this in Ubuntu. The alternative would be to demote all non-interesting gnupg dependencies to suggests, those would be: - gnupg-utils - gpg-wks-server - gpgv [stuff will depend on that anyway if it needs it, like apt does] - maybe gpg-wks-client This may make the gnupg package *actually useful* rather than be a pointless metapackage that nobody actually wants to install. Let me know what you think but this surely is a mess we need to sort out, and I have about ~ next week to do so downstream. -- System Information: Debian Release: trixie/sid APT prefers noble APT policy: (500, 'noble'), (500, 'mantic-security') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 6.6.0-14-generic (SMP w/16 CPU threads; PREEMPT) Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_OOT_MODULE Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled -- no debconf information -- debian developer - deb.li/jak | jak-linux.org - free software dev ubuntu core developer i speak de, en
