Bug#634930: Dependencies [Was: gpa: GPA unusable due to "General Assuan error"]

Am Samstag, den 28.07.2012, 12:20 -0700 schrieb Ian Zimmerman:

One rather disconcerting thing about gpa is that it has both gnupg and
gnupg2 in its dependency graph. I wonder if that might account for some
of the weird problems.

I don't think so. However, I'm planning to drop the gnupg1 dependency
and let gpa depend on gnupg2 and its toolchain.

What is the purpose of having gnupg v1 around anyway? Can the remaining
packages depending on it not be ported over?

GnuPG is an important tool in the Debian toolchain. The 1.x series is
much smaller, has lesser dependencies than the 2.x series; further it
doesn't need a running agent, it is stable and upstream still actively
supports it. IMO it is better suited for terminal-based systems.
Therefor I'm currently not in favor of dropping it.

But there is one thing, that should IMO be changed in Debian. ATM gnupg
1.x and 2.x series provide different binaries. It has already been
requested to introduce a diversion instead, so both packages provide a
gpg binary (and both can still provide gpgX (X=1,2) binaries). This step
can IMO improve the situation.

Regards, Daniel


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