[pkg-gnupg-maint] Bug#814027: Bug#814027: Provide gpgv-udeb from gnupg 1.4 on armel for stretch?

[Martin Michlmayr]

* Daniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg at fifthhorseman.net> [2016-02-16 01:34]:
> As for the libgcrypt-udeb dependency, isn't its size amortized by
> cryptsetup's dependency on it as well?

The dependencies for cryptsetup can be loaded over the network, so
size doesn't matter as much.

But for the netboot image (which downloads components over the
network), we have to include gpgv in the actual debian-installer
ramdisk because we need to verify the APT signature before we can
download anything.

On an ARM device I'm trying to support, we only have 4 MB space
for the ramdisk.

> is it possible to reduce the size of libgcrypt20-udeb itself?
> Alternately, we could try building gpgv-udeb with static linkage and see
> if that lets us cull unused parts of gcrypt to make the overall package
> smaller.

Yeah, we can definitely try that.

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