[pkg-gnupg-maint] Bug#979379: ITS: src:gnupg2

[Axel Beckert]

Hi Andreas,

Andreas Metzler wrote:
> On 2021-01-05 Christoph Biedl <debian.axhn at manchmal.in-ulm.de> wrote:
> > Package: src:gnupg2
> [...]
> > as described in the developers' reference, I hereby declare my intention
> > to salvage the gnugp2 package, with the primary goal of having a recent
> > upstream version in the upcoming release; [...]
> 
> It is probably too late for that, gnupg is part of build-essential (via apt)
> which is going to be frozen the day after tomorrow.

According to
https://release.debian.org/bullseye/essential-and-build-essential.txt
(linked from https://release.debian.org/bullseye/freeze_policy.html)
neither is (build-)essential. Just dpkg is, but neither apt nor
gnupg. Which IMHO makes sense: You don't need apt for build-essential.
And it's not essential either despite it regards itself as such when
considering removing itself.

		Regards, Axel
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