Control: reassign -1 gnupg 2.4.4-1 Control: tags -1 pending On 2024-05-11 Michael Tokarev <m...@tls.msk.ru> wrote: > 11.05.2024 09:14, Michael Tokarev wrote: > .. > > Please note the function gnupg uses email for is very rarely used, - > > it's been many years when gpg-wks-server has been built without even > > specifying path to sendmail binary, it's been fixed only in #1025782 > > in 2024.
> Okay, it looks like I was wrong. gpg-wks-server is the one which actually > uses email (for confirmation)... > > Even better if gpg-wks-server itself becomes "more optional", - right > > now it is installed on all my (at least desktop) systems. But this > > is a different matter it seems (looks more like bugs in other packages > > who blindly depend on whole gnupg instead of certain components they > > actually use). > but it is the other packages which wrongly require whole gnupg, including > gpg-wks-server, while actually using only main part of it. I just filed > #1070882 against devscripts - which seems to be the main reason all my > desktop systems has gpg-wks-server which is not used by anything. Also > #1070880 against dput-ng. Hello Micheal, Thank you for submitting these bugs. FWIW I have downgraded the metapackage gnupg2's dependency on gpg-wks-server to a suggests in GIT. (Which IIRC mirrors Ubuntu's choice.) cu Andreas -- `What a good friend you are to him, Dr. Maturin. His other friends are so grateful to you.' `I sew his ears on from time to time, sure'
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