Bug#203741: apt-secure
On Mon, 8 Sep 2003, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> I'm wary of a Depends: on gnupg, since apt is fully functional without it.
> We should definitely ship some keys by default, but if we ship them in the
> form of a gnupg keyring, rather than exported keys, I think we can avoid the
> dependency and just copy the keyring into place (assuming that gnupg
> keyrings are reasonably portable across versions).
Jason said years ago that he was going to add dlopen support to apt. He never
did. If apt could suddenly load external modules, then apt-secure could be a
separate deb, that depended on gpg, and debian-keyring.
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