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  • Bug#1104260: gnome-control-center: remove no-longer-required dependency

    From James Addison@21:1/5 to All on Sun Apr 27 23:40:02 2025
    Source: gnome-control-center
    Severity: wishlist
    Tags: patch

    Dear Maintainer,

    GNOME's gnome-control-center (aka Settings) component removed[1] use of the
    apg command-line password generator in Y2012.

    In addition, Debian's apg maintainance indicates[2] that upstream support is
    no longer available, and that it would be preferable to migrate to alternatives.

    As a result, I think we should drop the dependency on apg. I'll offer a merge request on Salsa to do this and will link to that from this bugreport.

    Thanks,
    James

    [1] - https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-control-center/-/commit/810f29b6cee271cf784aef6478a1952a5ee60b8e

    [2] - https://salsa.debian.org/debian/apg/-/commit/8622b7aa80e5c5c4156296b14472f90c348e0c52

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  • From James Addison@21:1/5 to All on Sun Apr 27 23:50:01 2025
    Source: gnome-control-center
    Followup-For: Bug #1104260
    Control: forwarded -1 https://salsa.debian.org/gnome-team/gnome-control-center/-/merge_requests/61

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  • From James Addison@21:1/5 to All on Mon Apr 28 00:30:01 2025
    Source: gnome-control-center
    Followup-For: Bug #1104260
    Control: clone 1104260 -1 -2
    Control: reassign -1 src:budgie-control-center
    Control: retitle -1 budgie-control-center: remove no-longer-required dependency on apg
    Control: reassign -2 src:cinnamon-control-center
    Control: retitle -2 cinnamon-control-center: remove no-longer-required dependency on apg

    From inspecting 'apt rdepends apg': the same situation exists for the Budgie and Cinnamon variants of the component. Cloning separate bugs for those and reassigning appropriately.

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  • From James Addison@21:1/5 to All on Mon Apr 28 00:40:01 2025
    Source: cinnamon-control-center
    Followup-For: Bug #1104262
    Control: forwarded -1 https://salsa.debian.org/cinnamon-team/cinnamon-control-center/-/merge_requests/6

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  • From James Addison@21:1/5 to All on Mon Apr 28 00:50:01 2025
    Source: budgie-control-center
    Followup-For: Bug #1104261
    Control: forwarded -1 https://github.com/UbuntuBudgie/budgie-control-center/pull/1

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