On Thu, Mar 27, 2025 at 07:45:12PM +0100, Bill Allombert wrote: > Dear Debian developpers, > > popularity-contest relies on /usr/bin/gpg for encrypting files. > (it cannot use gpgv which does not provide encryption). > > By design popularity-contest needs to have as few non-essential > dependencies as possible because this skews the result. > > It used to be the case that apt depended on gpg, but not anymore. > Is it still the best option ? Very long ago. In practical terms, it may still be the best option. There is of course the question of where do you want to go and I'd like to see `sq` pre-installed on interactive systems in the future, instead of `gpg`; if we do that, it stands to reason it should depend on `sq|gpg`. But this is a question for forky, and somewhat distracting right now, so um I'd suggest doing nothing for now and think about that. -- debian developer - deb.li/jak | jak-linux.org - free software dev ubuntu core developer i speak de, en
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