RjY wrote: >It seems in recent unstable the gnupg package has turned into a >metapackage pulling in the whole gpg suite. Thus the dependency chain > mutt -> libgpgme11 -> gnupg -> [lots of stuff] >is pulling in a lot of stuff I don't need.
As a test I created an empty package to subvert the dependency and see if anything breaks. The control file was thus: Package: no-full-gnupg-install Maintainer: RjY <r...@users.sourceforge.net> Architecture: all Version: 1 Depends: gpg (>= 2.1.23-2) Recommends: gpg-agent (>= 2.1.23-2) Provides: gnupg (= 2.1.23-2) Description: No full GNUPG install This package "provides" gnupg, to avoid libgpgme11 pulling in the full gnupg suite, until 872368 is fixed. This allowed installing only gpg and gpg-agent. So far, things still seem to be working as expected: mutt appears fine, I can still use gpg to encrypt/decrypt backups, and so on. It would still be good to get this fixed in src:gpgme, though! Thanks in advance. -- https://rjy.org.uk/
