[pkg-gnupg-maint] gpgv udebs

Cyril Brulebois kibi at debian.org
Fri Aug 21 04:49:45 UTC 2015


Hi,

Daniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg at fifthhorseman.net> (2015-08-19):
> 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.

eh, thanks for the hint; mixing up those could easily happen.

> 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.

ACK, removed in:
  http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/d-i/partman-crypto.git/commit/?id=4c53c1c57733154689b54bd5abb689f8720b4984

Confirmed by looking at apt-cache showpkg gnupg-udeb in a sid/amd64
chroot (with udeb support).

> 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?

Dropping looks good to me, thanks for asking!

Mraw,
KiBi.
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