Package: cloud-init Version: 20.2-2 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer,
cloud-init uses gnupg in two ways: directly, to fetch and export keys (when specified by ID, see [0]), and via apt-key to add keys to the system (whether specified via ID or in full, see [1]). (Even once we remove apt-key usage[2], we will still need it for the former use case.) I've just opened a PR[3] to add this to our Ubuntu packaging, and would request that you do the same so that Debian users are able to configure custom apt sources using cloud-init configuration. (My assumption here is that Debian cloud images are built with --install-recommends; if not, then you may want to consider ensuring that gnupg is present in Debian cloud images via other means.) Thanks! Dan [0] https://github.com/canonical/cloud-init/blob/master/cloudinit/gpg.py [1] https://github.com/canonical/cloud-init/blob/master/cloudinit/config/cc_apt_configure.py#L698 [2] https://bugs.launchpad.net/cloud-init/+bug/1836336 [3] https://github.com/canonical/cloud-init/pull/583