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[Steve Langasek <2054908@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, Feb 25, 2024 at 07:13:30PM -0000, Julian Andres Klode wrote:
> 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.

Ok.  This is a sensible rationale, unfortunately.  But it was important to
surface that in this bug report.

> 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.

Yeah, I don't see any better solution here.  The only non-quirk solution
would be to add an artificial Conflicts: against gpg-wks-server.

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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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