[Pkg-gnupg-maint] Bug#545275: priority important package depending on optional one.

[Vincent Danjean]

Daniel Leidert wrote:
> Am Dienstag, den 15.09.2009, 18:59 +0200 schrieb Julien Cristau:
>> it seems to me you
>> could just demote the hkp helper's dependencies to Recommends
>> (exclude it when running dh_shlibdeps, and then run dpkg-shlibdeps
>> -dRecommends on the helper?  This doesn't require splitting the package
>> or messing with diversions.
> 
> I should have written that I considered this solution too, but decided
> against it for two reasons:

I think there is a third reason: gpg is installed very early (ie before
Recommends are taken into account). If I'm right here (I did not recheck),
then a gpg recommends would not be used on new installation and recommends
are generally not enforced when upgrading packages.

  Regards,
    Vincent