Changing this would allow installs to not have the whole dependency tree of gnupg, while still providing the upgrade path that the recent upload of apt was done to provide.
[Upgrades would install debian-archive-keyring, which would install gnupg if Recommends are set to be installed.] 13:21:41 <peterS> pusling: I'm not talking about apt recommending the keyring, but the keyring recommending gnupg 13:22:04 <dondelelcaro> right, which would resolve the issue 13:22:10 <dondelelcaro> since the keyring is small, it's no big deal 13:22:16 <Q_> dondelelcaro: It seems recommends don't get installed on upgrade, so you'd have debian-archive-keyring without gnupg. 13:22:24 <dondelelcaro> Q_: no, you wouldn't 13:22:46 <dondelelcaro> Q_: if you already had debian-archive-keyring, you'd have gpg. If you didn't, you'd get it installed if you were isntalling debian-archive-keyring for the first time 13:22:59 <dondelelcaro> (Assuming you asked for recommends to be installed and were using a frontend that understood them) 13:23:11 <Q_> dondelelcaro: Oh, right. 13:23:48 <dondelelcaro> although, I think the right solution is for apt-get, aptitude et al. to notice when the recommends have changed and suggest that they be installed when that's the case 13:24:05 <dondelelcaro> but that's clearly much more complicated 13:24:21 <peterS> also, I expect aptitude to deal more gracefully with a missing gnupg than with a missing archive keyring. the latter might just mean you trust _other_ repositories instead. the former means you have no way of checking and it shouldn't whine. Don Armstrong -- "You have many years to live--do things you will be proud to remember when you are old." -- Shinka proverb. (John Brunner _Stand On Zanzibar p413) http://www.donarmstrong.com http://rzlab.ucr.edu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]