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

[Werner Koch]

On Tue, 25 Oct 2016 00:55, dkg at fifthhorseman.net said:

>  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

Yes, I changed the format with 2.1.16 but this has not yet been
released.  The server site should be okay now, the client as a few
FIXMEs which need to be addressed before 2.2.

>  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

There will be man pages as soon as we know tha the interface works.  The
kmial folks are currently working on it and it seems there are no major
troubles.

However, it is important to make gpg-wks-client part of the standard
gnupg package, similar to gpgconf.  In case dirmngr is distributed in a
separate package gpg-wks-client should be part of that package because
it woule be useless w/o dirmngr.

gpg-wks-server can be a separate package.  It is only required by MTA
operators.

>     not at all?  Some alternate names for the package i can imagine are:

I like the *-tools name best.

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

gpg-wks-server requires gpg but should work w/o dirmngr
gpg-wks-client requires gpg and dirmngr.

>  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?

See above.  (Do not bundle them).



Salam-Shalom,

   Werner

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