[pkg-gnupg-maint] Bug#834602: dirmngr/gnupg: dependencies not strict enough
Ansgar Burchardt
ansgar at debian.org
Wed Aug 17 14:37:50 UTC 2016
Package: dirmngr
Version: 2.1.14-5
Severity: normal
The dependencies between dirmngr and gnupg2 are not strict enough and
allow installing non-working combinations, such as dirmngr=2.1.11-7
(from testing) and gnupg=2.1.14-5 (from unstable):
+---
| % gpg --search-keys [...]
| gpg: connecting dirmngr at '/run/user/[...]/gnupg/S.dirmngr' failed: IPC connect call failed
| gpg: error searching keyserver: No dirmngr
| gpg: keyserver search failed: No dirmngr
| 2 ~ % dpkg -l gnupg dirmngr
| Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| | Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
| |/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
| ||/ Name Version Architecture Description
| +++-============================-===================-===================-=============================================================
| ii dirmngr 2.1.11-7 amd64 server for managing certificate revocation lists
| ii gnupg 2.1.14-5 amd64 GNU privacy guard - a free PGP replacement
| ~ % sudo apt install dirmngr/unstable
| [...]
| Preparing to unpack .../dirmngr_2.1.14-5_amd64.deb ...
| Unpacking dirmngr (2.1.14-5) over (2.1.11-7) ...
| Processing triggers for man-db (2.7.5-1) ...
| Setting up dirmngr (2.1.14-5) ...
| ~ % gpg --search-keys [...]
| [...]
| Keys 1-2 of 2 for "[...]". Enter number(s), N)ext, or Q)uit > q
+---
Ansgar
-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
APT prefers unstable-debug
APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (300, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 4.6.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
Versions of packages dirmngr depends on:
ii adduser 3.115
ii libassuan0 2.4.3-1
ii libc6 2.23-4
ii libgcrypt20 1.7.2-2
ii libgnutls30 3.5.2-2
ii libgpg-error0 1.24-1
ii libksba8 1.3.4-4
ii libldap-2.4-2 2.4.42+dfsg-2+b2
ii libnpth0 1.2-3
ii lsb-base 9.20160629
Versions of packages dirmngr recommends:
ii gnupg 2.1.14-5
Versions of packages dirmngr suggests:
ii tor 0.2.8.6-2
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