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Re: debian-archive-keyring should Recommends: gnupg not Depends: it



On Fri, Oct 13, 2006 at 08:07:22AM +0200, Andreas Barth wrote:
> * Don Armstrong (don@donarmstrong.com) [061013 05:23]:
> > Changing this would allow installs to not have the whole dependency
> > tree of gnupg, while still providing the upgrade path that the recent
> > upload of apt was done to provide.

> > [Upgrades would install debian-archive-keyring, which would install
> > gnupg if Recommends are set to be installed.]

> Hm, does apt* behave different on Recommends of a new package vs
> Recommends of a to-be-upgraded package?

aptitude does; recommends of new packages are installed by default, new
recommends of upgraded packages are not.

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