Hi, Daniel Kahn Gillmor <d...@fifthhorseman.net> (2015-08-19): > On Wed 2015-08-12 01:51:35 +0200, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: > > > i believe the installer relies on gpgv for archive manifest signature > > verification. we have gpgv-udeb for that purpose, i think. > > One more followup about gnupg and udebs-- > > The gnupg packaging currently makes a gnupg-udeb in addition to a > gpgv-udeb. This post is about gnupg-udeb, and not gpgv-udeb.
eh, thanks for the hint; mixing up those could easily happen. > I'm proposing to drop the gnupg-udeb entirely. > > It looks like it was used at one point in the past for partman-crypto, > but it is no longer used there. ACK, removed in: http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/d-i/partman-crypto.git/commit/?id=4c53c1c57733154689b54bd5abb689f8720b4984 Confirmed by looking at apt-cache showpkg gnupg-udeb in a sid/amd64 chroot (with udeb support). > I searched here: > > http://codesearch.debian.net/results/gnupg-udeb/ > > and the only places it shows up are the changelong for partman-crypto, > and a test case for python-debian. the package isn't actually used any > more. > > So i plan to drop the gnupg-udeb in a future release of the gnupg > package, unless i hear a report that it's something people need. > > Anyone want to speak up in favor of keeping it? Dropping looks good to me, thanks for asking! Mraw, KiBi.
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