[pkg-gnupg-maint] gpgv udebs

Daniel Kahn Gillmor dkg at fifthhorseman.net
Wed Aug 19 10:55:58 UTC 2015


On Wed 2015-08-12 01:51:35 +0200, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:

> i believe the installer relies on gpgv for archive manifest signature
> verification.  we have gpgv-udeb for that purpose, i think.

One more followup about gnupg and udebs--

The gnupg packaging currently makes a gnupg-udeb in addition to a
gpgv-udeb.  This post is about gnupg-udeb, and not gpgv-udeb.

I'm proposing to drop the gnupg-udeb entirely.

It looks like it was used at one point in the past for partman-crypto,
but it is no longer used there.

I searched here:

  http://codesearch.debian.net/results/gnupg-udeb/

and the only places it shows up are the changelong for partman-crypto,
and a test case for python-debian.  the package isn't actually used any
more.

So i plan to drop the gnupg-udeb in a future release of the gnupg
package, unless i hear a report that it's something people need.

Anyone want to speak up in favor of keeping it?

       --dkg



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