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[Julian Andres Klode <2054908@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Steve - it is a server package for hosting a web key server, it's
entirely reasonable for it to depend on a mail transport agent. A WKS
server, upon uploading a key, sends confirmation emails to the UIDs in
the key, before publishing it, so that it only published keys with
consent.

It's problematic that it was installed by default, and I'm fixing this
here and in Debian by doing the restructuring I did. This is not optimal
for people upgrading without quirks (i.e. Debian users especially) but I
don't think breaking the wks server to make upgrades without quirks
nicer is a better choice.

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Title:
  gpg-wks-server pulls in postfix

Status in Auto Package Testing:
  New
Status in apt package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid
Status in gnupg2 package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in munin package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid
Status in ubuntu-release-upgrader package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Example 1
  ----
  I did a sudo apt dist-upgrade today on my developer machine running Ubuntu Desktop 24.04 LTS and it surprisingly pulled in postfix.

  I did not built this into a full reproducible test case because I
  found another test case…

  Example 2
  ----
  munin's autopkgtests are now failing because postfix is now unexpectedly being installed.

  https://autopkgtest.ubuntu.com/packages/munin/noble/amd64

  Other Info
  ----
  gnupg2's changelog indicates that there was an attempt to avoid this misbehavior by having gnupg only Suggest gpg-wks-server. In fact, there is **nothing** in Ubuntu 24.04 LTS that Depends or Recommends gpg-wks-server.

  I added a munin bug task as a pointer in case anyone wonder's about
  the autopkgtest regression but I don't believe munin needs any
  changes.

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