On Thu, Jan 9, 2025 at 11:57 PM Tim Connors <report...@rather.puzzling.org> wrote: > Per bugs 1092631 823492 841909 842015 842334 842908 845565 853066 > 559101 801247 and 795368, it would be really neat if any machine that > had evolution installed didn't also mandate pinentry-gnome3. > > desktop pulls in evolution. evolution pulls in evolution-data-server. > evolution-data-server mandates gnome-keyring. Gnome-keyring (probably > sensibly) mandates pinentry-gnome3. > > But evolution doesn't appear to actually need gnome-keyring. Maybe > "recommends" would be a better option? Or > gnome-keyring|pinentry-gtk2|pinentry-qt (still only recommends, > because you don't *need* gpg keys in order to be able to read and > answer email) or something like that.
Maybe this part is nitpicking: evolution depends on evolution-data-server which it definitely needs. So we can ignore the part about evolution and just focus on evolution-data-server (which I guess you somewhat realized since you did file the bug against the right package.). Also, the "gnome" metapackage is irrelevant since gnome-core depends on evolution-data-server. You don't need to have evolution or "gnome" if you don't want to. I'd recommend keeping "gnome-core" installed but that isn't required either; you just have to handle making sure you have the components installed that you want. Simon laid out a rough summary of the work needed here. Someone would need to verify whether an alternate implementation fulfills all the usecases that gnome-keyring does. If the verification succeeds, we may want to introduce a virtual package to represent this. I don't think anyone from the Debian GNOME team is working on this project now so it's unlikely to happen in time for Debian 13 later this year. It is a good idea to explore but the team is small and have other priorities as we finish up Debian 13. Thank you, Jeremy Bícha
