Control: tag -1 patch On Fri, Feb 16, 2024 at 10:42:35AM +0100, Julian Andres Klode wrote: > 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.
Implemented in https://salsa.debian.org/debian/gnupg2/-/merge_requests/13 as just uploaded to Ubuntu. -- debian developer - deb.li/jak | jak-linux.org - free software dev ubuntu core developer i speak de, en
