[Bug 1634464] Re: cloudimg apt missing dirmngr

2016-10-19 Thread Alan Franzoni
I would add: the current Ubuntu help page (yes, it's a community one, but nothing official exists AFAIK) for SecureApt, as well as the Debian one, advertise a gpg feature which doesn't work anymore in Yakkety: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SecureApt https://wiki.debian.org/SecureApt -- You

[Bug 1634464] Re: cloudimg apt missing dirmngr

2016-10-19 Thread Alan Franzoni
Hello Julian, some notes on your answer. "If you want to use optional (deprecated) features of apt-key like adv" -> How could I tell that "apt-key adv" is deprecated? Neither the man page nor the command says that adv is deprecated, and I couldn't find anything related in the first Google search

[Bug 1634464] Re: cloudimg apt missing dirmngr

2016-10-18 Thread graingert
@juliank apt-key adv is not deprecated. Maybe it should be marked as deprecated. > Drop files in trusted.gpg.d instead. can the man page for apt-key include how to do this? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 1634464] Re: cloudimg apt missing dirmngr

2016-10-18 Thread Julian Andres Klode
APT recommends gnupg, and gnupg recommends dirmngr, so all is working as intended. If you want to use optional (deprecated) features of apt-key like adv, you have to manually install gnupg. If you want to use optional features depending on key servers, you have to install dirmngr manually. The