Bug#970796: cloud-init: Please add gnupg to Recommends
On Wed, Sep 23, 2020 at 10:57:50AM -0400, Daniel Watkins wrote:
> 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.)
No, none of this use-cases are valid.
Per ID is not reliable, as the keyserver network is falling apart.
Per complete key does not need gnupg, but needs to deposit the keys in
the correct file.
Bastian
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