Bug#1105130: release-notes: uprading a minimal system with gnupg to trixie pulls in an MTA

[Andrew Bower <andrew@bower.uk>]

Hi,

On Mon, Jun 23, 2025 at 04:27:15PM +0100, Justin B Rye wrote:
> Richard Lewis wrote:
> >> If a minimal system with gnupg is upgraded to trixie it is likely to pull in an
> >> unwanted MTA because of changed dependencies. Such users may find it helpful
> >> for a hint in the release notes to remove gpg-wks-server on upgrade, such as
> >> with:
> >>
> >>   apt full-upgrade gpg-wks-server-
> 
> (I take it the context here is a system where the admin insists on
> having gnupg installed but no MTA.  Personally I do the opposite: I
> keep postfix installed but I only have gpg, not gnupg and all its
> friends.)

The use case was VMs providing microservices. I've done some archaeology
and it seems these hosts got gnupg pulled in unintentionally earlier in
their lifetime via another Recommends, replacing gpgv from the initial
bootstrap.

On reflection it seems this is too niche to worry about in the release
notes but I hope the discussion was useful if it leads to other small
improvements.

Thanks both!