[pkg-gnupg-maint] Bug#907002: Bug#907002: gnupg2: please install doc/DETAILS

Daniel Kahn Gillmor dkg at fifthhorseman.net
Fri Aug 24 05:31:23 BST 2018


On Fri 2018-08-24 09:05:03 +0900, Norbert Preining wrote:
> I guess I was misguided by too many gnupg doc dirs. Since
> 	/usr/bin/gpg   <- gpg package
> 	/usr/bin/gpg2  <- gnupg2 package
> I obviously only checked 
> 	/usr/share/doc/ ->
> 		gnupg2
> 		gpg
> but not gnupg. Checking the contents of the gnupg package I somehow
> don't see why this isn't in the gpg package and the gnupg package
> dropped. My feeling there are a bit too many ;-)

feel free to purge gnupg2 -- as the description says, "This is a dummy
transitional package that provides symlinks from gpg2 to gpg."

as for why the packages are broken out as much as they are, please see
the lengthy discussion at https://bugs.debian.org/891931 and further
references.

regards,

        --dkg



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