On Sun, Oct 21, 2018 at 10:00:43PM +0000, Ivan Shmakov wrote:
It can be argued that libgpgme11 does not “provide a significant amount of functionality” (7.2) without gnupg.
It won't function at all without gnupg.
However, and it seems to be a common practice in Debian, for a shared library package that ‘functionality’ can be understood first and foremost as /allowing the packages dependent on said shared library package to run correctly./ (The ubiquity of said practice is evident from how libmariadbclient18 does /not/ depend on MariaDB
That's because a MariaDB client can be installed on a different machine to a MarieDB server.
, or how libxt6 does /not/ depend on an X server package, and so on, and so forth.)
Same idea: separation of client and server. The same is not true for libgpgme11. -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Jonathan Dowland ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ https://jmtd.net ⠈⠳⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀ Please do not CC me, I am subscribed to the list.
