Devuan bug report logs - #895
devuan-keyring: recommends gnupg; can we have a minimal devuan-archive-keyring?

Package: devuan-keyring; Maintainer for devuan-keyring is Devuan Developers <devuan-dev@lists.dyne.org>; Source for devuan-keyring is src:devuan-keyring.

Reported by: Andrew Bower <andrew@bower.uk>

Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2025 18:40:01 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Found in version devuan-keyring/2022.09.04

Fixed in version 2025.07.30

Done: Mark Hindley <mark@hindley.org.uk>

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Andrew,

Thanks for this.

On Mon, Jun 23, 2025 at 07:37:41PM +0100, Andrew Bower wrote:
> but it would be nice if there were a devuan-archive-keyring package along the
> lines of debian-archive-keyring that did not have this recommends.
> 
> Any reason this isn't already the case? I see that the package only
> includes archive keyrings anyway.

I think a few individual keys are in /usr/share/keyrings/devuan-keyring.gpg as
well.

I suspect the answer is that, there are so few individual keys that it has never
seemed worth separating them. The packaging metainfo would probably be larger
than the content!

Since gnupg is only Recommends, is it worth it?

Mark

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Devuan bug report logs - #895 devuan-keyring: recommends gnupg; can we have a minimal devuan-archive-keyring?

Devuan bug report logs - #895
devuan-keyring: recommends gnupg; can we have a minimal devuan-archive-keyring?