[Pkg-gnupg-maint] gnupg-doc in debian?

[Daniel Kahn Gillmor]

On Tue 2014-09-02 01:16:47 -0400, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:
> Hi Don (and others on pkg-gnupg-maint)--
>
> I'm hoping to help freshen up the gnupg-doc package in debian.
>
> I notice that gnupg-doc is owned by you, but there is an svn repository
> of it in the pkg-gnupg-maint team svn repository.
>
> We're in the process of converting all of pkg-gnupg-maint's svn to git,
> and gnupg-doc is the last one left.  Are you averse to moving from svn
> to git?  Are you interested in seeing gnupg-doc under the
> pkg-gnupg-maint umbrella explicitly?
>
> The package looks like it's seen very little activity -- it seems likely
> that it's out-of-date, too, though it's not clear to me how it used to
> be updated, if ever.  debian/copyright suggests that the tarball was
> actually assembled by hand by James Troup from
> http://www.gnupg.org/docs.html.
>
> Today, that URL redirects to https://www.gnupg.org/documentation/, and
> that documentation appears to be stored in git, and actively updated
> upstream:
>
>  http://git.gnupg.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=gnupg-doc.git;a=summary
>  git clone git://git.gnupg.org/git-docs
>
> What do you think is the best approach to dealing with this package in
> debian going forward?

This nearly three-week-old question about the suitability of gnupg-doc
has had no response.

I wonder if anyone is interested in this package?

I note that it was removed from testing nearly a year ago:

   https://packages.qa.debian.org/g/gnupg-doc/news/20131024T163912Z.html

and that it FTBFS since that time:

   https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=724520

popcon shows a fairly steady downward trend of installations as well.
Compare with gnupg2:

   https://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=gnupg-doc
   https://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=gnupg2

And of course most of the data that was shipped in gnupg-doc is directly
available from https://gnupg.org/ today.

Should we drop the package from debian?  I imagine an RM bug would look
like:

RM: gnupg-doc -- RoM; low popcon, lack of interest, other ways of getting data

The only other alternative seems likely to be a pretty massive packaging
overhaul: upstream sources are significantly different, the build
process needs a revamp, and so on.


Of course this is a question primarily for Don, since he's the official
maintainer of the package.  But i think we all want to make sure that
gnupg-related packages in debian are reasonably synchronized and doing
the right thing.

Any suggestions?

       --dkg
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