[pkg-gnupg-maint] gpgv udebs

Daniel Kahn Gillmor dkg at fifthhorseman.net
Wed Aug 12 14:12:52 UTC 2015


On Wed 2015-08-12 02:38:48 -0400, Werner Koch wrote:
> The use of libksba is unfortunate:
>
>   # FIXME: Libkeybox.a links to libksba thus we need to add libksba
>   # here, even that it is not used by gpg.  A proper solution would
>   # either to split up libkeybox.a or to use a separate keybox daemon.
>
> libkeybox implements the keybox format, which supports X.509 and
> OpenPGP.  It is required to insert or search X.509 certificates but gpg
> does not do this.  Thus we can split it up and build two of the keybox
> convenience libraries - one for general use and one for use by gpg and
> gpgv.
>
> Shall I do that for 2.1.8?

yes, this sounds like the right solution.  thanks for coming up with it
so quickly, Werner!

I've filed https://bugs.gnupg.org/gnupg/issue2068 upstream to track the
proposal.

   --dkg
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