Re: Fwd: Question about packages held from Sarge

[Adeodato Simó <asp16@alu.ua.es>]

* Anthony Towns [Sun, 23 Jan 2005 12:20:36 +1000]:

> See http://ftp-master.debian.org/testing/data/FauxPackages for the
> current FauxPackages.

  OK, thanks for the reminder since I had forgotten we need one of these.

> So, the answer to that question is that the maintainer talks to the 
> release team about what the dependency is and they make sure the 

  If I'm not mistaken, kleopatra could use:

    Package: gpgsm

  (If Version is strictly necessary, 1.9.11+cvs20040924-5 is what I have
  installed.)

  Note that the previous version of kleopatra entered testing thanks to
  a force-hint from vorlon when the KDE 3.3 transition happened (which
  was before FauxPackages was implemented).

> dependency is correct (that it can't be correctly fulfilled by a Debian 
> package, and that the package can't be uploaded to Debian in good time); 
                                                            ^^^^^^^^^^^^

  I see gnupg2 sitting in NEW since 2004-09-29. I don't know _first-hand_
  the reasons for which it hasn't been accepted, though I can imagine
  that "new version of some software does not grant a new source
  package" is reasonable enough.

  Still, I'd *love* sarge users to enjoy out-of-the-box PGP support in
  KMail without the need of packages outside Debian, so I'd like to hear
  back from the gnupg package maintainer if he would agree that somebody
  (possibly Matthias Urlichs or himself) packages _not_ the full gnupg2
  sources, but only those bits needed ATM by some other packages (gpgsm
  and gnupg-agent, if I'm not wrong).

  Thanks.

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