[pkg-gnupg-maint] packaging GnuPG's wks for debian

[Daniel Kahn Gillmor]

hey all--

Sandro (hefee) proposes packaging GnuPG's wks client and server for
debian (see attached patch below).

I wanted to see what people think about this.  Aside from adding another
loop through the NEW queue (due to the addition of a new package
gnupg-wks), i have a few concerns and questions:

 0) Is wks ready for stable distribution?  We've seen not insignificant
    changes just in the last revision of GnuPG, and there are more
    pending for 2.1.16, afaict.  Perhaps we should upload it to
    experimental instead, and bump the extra work along in a spare
    branch (it's a nicely self-contained patchset) without pushing it to
    unstable.

 1) documentation: it looks like we'd be shipping only gpg-wks-server
    and gpg-wks-client.  i see no manpages or info pages or anything
    comparable.  Especially for experimental code that might change
    rapidly, it's good to ship contemporaneous documentation.

 2) package names: Sandro proposes gnupg-wks.  Do we want the gnupg-
    prefix?  the utilities themselves are prefixed with gpg-wks-, not
    gnupg-wks- ; maybe it'd be better to match the binaries?  Or perhaps
    not at all?  Some alternate names for the package i can imagine are:

     * wks-tools
     * gpg-wks-tools
     * gpg-wks
     * gnupg-wks-tools
     * wks

   Any preferences?

 3) dependencies: Sandro's patch says Recommends: gnupg | gpgsm but
    nothing else.  Will these tools actually be useful with neither of
    them?

 4) do client and server belong together?  the server will be running
    pretty much independently, if i understand the architecture, and
    might have a different set of dependencies.  Does it make sense to
    bundle them together in the same package?

Thanks for any insight or thoughts or suggestions you might have, and
thanks to Sandro for pushing on this!

       --dkg

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