[pkg-gnupg-maint] Bug#840452: Bug#840452: Package is not binNMU safe

[Daniel Kahn Gillmor]

On Wed 2016-10-12 04:01:42 -0400, Vincent Danjean wrote:
> Package: gnupg1
> Version: 1.4.21-1+b1
> Followup-For: Bug #840452
>
>   There is also a problem in gnupg1-l10n (arch: all) that
> has currently:
> Enhances: gnupg1 (= 1.4.21-1)
> while only gnupg1 1.4.21-1+b1 is available.
>
>   This situation leads my system to propose me to remove
> gnupg1-l10n:
> vdanjean at eyak:~$ LC_ALL=C sudo apt upgrade
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree       
> Reading state information... Done
> Calculating upgrade... Done
> The following package was automatically installed and is no longer required:
>   gnupg1-l10n
> Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove it.
> 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
> vdanjean at eyak:~$ apt-cache policy gnupg1-l10n gnupg1
> gnupg1-l10n:
>   Installé : 1.4.21-1
>   Candidat : 1.4.21-1
>  Table de version :
>  *** 1.4.21-1 500
>         500 http://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian testing/main amd64 Packages
>         500 http://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian unstable/main amd64 Packages
>         100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
> gnupg1:
>   Installé : 1.4.21-1+b1
>   Candidat : 1.4.21-1+b1
>  Table de version :
>  *** 1.4.21-1+b1 500
>         500 http://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian testing/main amd64 Packages
>         500 http://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian unstable/main amd64 Packages
>         100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

indeed, that's annoying.  however, i think that when 1.4.21-2 gets
uploaded [0] with the slightly looser Recommends: from gnupg1 to
gnupg1-l10n, apt will not consider gnupg1-l10n to be abandoned
("auto-installed") from a dependency viewpoint:

[0] https://anonscm.debian.org/git/pkg-gnupg/gnupg1.git/commit/?id=b4b610ef8c241c23717ec7ccc423d3811e07741b

Thanks for checking in and reporting back.  Please let me know if you
think this fix isn't going to resolve your view of the problem for some
reason.

           --dkg
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