Bug#686632: Packaging Fault: kgpg should depend on some version of gpg
Package: kgpg
Version: 4:4.4.5-1+squeeze1
Severity: minor
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From: Nick Boyce <nick@glimmer.adsl24.co.uk>
To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>
Subject: Packaging Fault: kgpg should depend on some version of gpg
Message-ID: <20120904035835.2770.23363.reportbug@shimmer.glimmer.adsl24.co.uk>
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Date: Tue, 04 Sep 2012 04:58:35 +0100
Package: kgpg
Version: 4.4.5-1+squeeze1
Severity: minor
kgpg is designed as a KDE4 GUI wrapper for the commandline GnuPG crypto
toolkit, and as such does not itself contain any OpenPGP facilities. It is
therefore useless unless it is installed alongside some version of GnuPG,
and so it would surely be helpful to users - if only for documentary reasons
- if the kgpg package depended on either gnupg or gnupg2 (I don't think
gpgme contains enough functionality). This would of course also provide for
automatic installation of the supporting GnuPG software on any system which
doesn't already have it.
I acknowledge that current Debian systems are likely to have GnuPG already
installed because it seems to be a base package these days, presumably
because it's necessary in order to check package signatures during package
installation by APT.
I note that Ubuntu's current kgpg package also lacks the gnupg dependency,
having apparently dropped it around the time of the change from KDE3 to
KDE4. I can confirm that on Debian Sarge / KDE 3.3.2 the kgpg package had a
gnupg dependency (I still have such a system) so maybe the dependency was
dropped by Debian at the KDE3/4 transition, perhaps on the grounds that
GnuPG will always be present. This bug is being submitted in case the
ommission is inadvertent.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 6.0.5
APT prefers stable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 6.0.5
APT prefers stable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages kgpg depends on:
ii kdebase-runtime 4:4.4.5-1 runtime components from the offici
ii kdepim-runtime 4:4.4.7-1 Runtime components for akonadi-kde
ii libc6 2.11.3-3 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii libkabc4 4:4.4.5-2 library for handling address book
ii libkdecore5 4:4.4.5-2+squeeze3 the KDE Platform Core Library
ii libkdeui5 4:4.4.5-2+squeeze3 the KDE Platform User Interface Li
ii libkio5 4:4.4.5-2+squeeze3 the Network-enabled File Managemen
ii libkpimutils4 4:4.4.5-2 library for dealing with email add
ii libqt4-dbus 4:4.6.3-4+squeeze1 Qt 4 D-Bus module
ii libqtcore4 4:4.6.3-4+squeeze1 Qt 4 core module
ii libqtgui4 4:4.6.3-4+squeeze1 Qt 4 GUI module
ii libsolid4 4:4.4.5-2+squeeze3 Solid Library for KDE Platform
ii libstdc++6 4.4.5-8 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
kgpg recommends no packages.
kgpg suggests no packages.
-- no debconf information
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