Bug#1104260: gnome-control-center: remove no-longer-required dependency on apg

James Addison jay at jp-hosting.net
Sun Apr 27 22:31:19 BST 2025


Source: gnome-control-center
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch

Dear Maintainer,

GNOME's gnome-control-center (aka Settings) component removed[1] use of the
apg command-line password generator in Y2012.

In addition, Debian's apg maintainance indicates[2] that upstream support is
no longer available, and that it would be preferable to migrate to
alternatives.

As a result, I think we should drop the dependency on apg.  I'll offer a merge
request on Salsa to do this and will link to that from this bugreport.

Thanks,
James

[1] - https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-control-center/-/commit/810f29b6cee271cf784aef6478a1952a5ee60b8e

[2] - https://salsa.debian.org/debian/apg/-/commit/8622b7aa80e5c5c4156296b14472f90c348e0c52



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