On Sun, Feb 25, 2024 at 07:13:30PM -0000, Julian Andres Klode wrote: > Steve - it is a server package for hosting a web key server, it's > entirely reasonable for it to depend on a mail transport agent. A WKS > server, upon uploading a key, sends confirmation emails to the UIDs in > the key, before publishing it, so that it only published keys with > consent.
Ok. This is a sensible rationale, unfortunately. But it was important to surface that in this bug report. > It's problematic that it was installed by default, and I'm fixing this > here and in Debian by doing the restructuring I did. This is not optimal > for people upgrading without quirks (i.e. Debian users especially) but I > don't think breaking the wks server to make upgrades without quirks > nicer is a better choice. Yeah, I don't see any better solution here. The only non-quirk solution would be to add an artificial Conflicts: against gpg-wks-server. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to apt in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2054908 Title: gpg-wks-server pulls in postfix Status in Auto Package Testing: New Status in apt package in Ubuntu: Invalid Status in gnupg2 package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Status in munin package in Ubuntu: Invalid Status in ubuntu-release-upgrader package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Example 1 ---- I did a sudo apt dist-upgrade today on my developer machine running Ubuntu Desktop 24.04 LTS and it surprisingly pulled in postfix. I did not built this into a full reproducible test case because I found another test case… Example 2 ---- munin's autopkgtests are now failing because postfix is now unexpectedly being installed. https://autopkgtest.ubuntu.com/packages/munin/noble/amd64 Other Info ---- gnupg2's changelog indicates that there was an attempt to avoid this misbehavior by having gnupg only Suggest gpg-wks-server. In fact, there is **nothing** in Ubuntu 24.04 LTS that Depends or Recommends gpg-wks-server. I added a munin bug task as a pointer in case anyone wonder's about the autopkgtest regression but I don't believe munin needs any changes. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/auto-package-testing/+bug/2054908/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
