[pkg-gnupg-maint] Bug#841849: Bug#841849: gnupg2: gpg2 should break/replace gnupg-curl

[Daniel Kahn Gillmor]

Hi Aurélien--

On Sun 2016-10-23 15:43:07 -0400, Aurélien COUDERC wrote:
> I noticed after upgrading to gpg2 that gnupg-curl remains installed with
> version 1.4.x.
>
> Shouldn’t gpg2 declare a break/replace against gnupg-curl so the package gets
> uninstalled on upgrade.

That's a good question, and i'm not sure what the right thing to do is
here.

gnupg 2.1.x certainly doesn't break anything installed by gnupg-curl,
and it also doesn't really "replace" it -- if anything, dirmngr is the
thing that replaces the functionality previously provded by gnupg-curl,
but it does so quite differently from an architectural point of view.

i suppose if you've installed the gnupg package from 2.1.x, though,
gnupg-curl is no longer relevant, and should be removed, and probably
the simplest thing is to just use breaks+replaces.

Any other suggestions on how to structure this are welcome.  thanks for
the attention to detail, Aurélien.

    --dkg
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