Bug#871244: diffoscope: support keybox files with kbxutil

Daniel Kahn Gillmor dkg at fifthhorseman.net
Mon Aug 7 14:28:20 UTC 2017


On Mon 2017-08-07 13:33:00 +0200, Mattia Rizzolo wrote:
> As you know we/I regularly backport diffoscope to Debian stable, so we
> care about having those tools available there as well.
> So, do you plan on making gnupg-utils available in stretch-backports
> (with all the ongoing maintenance that such choice entails) or do you
> think that having an alternate build-dependency+recommends is a way to
> go here (possibly with a version restriction, e.g.
>     gnupg-utils | gnupg (<< 2.1.21-4~)
> )?

this looks dependency looks fine to me.  I'd rather not commit to
backporting gnupg to stretch-bpo just yet.

> I'd like to avoid having a delta between buster and stretch-bpo, at
> least not this early in the development cycle..

yep, that makes sense.

> Also, do you plan on sending a patch for diffoscope? :D

it's on my stack, but it won't be in the next week or two. if someone
beats me to it i won't be upset :)

      --dkg



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