Debian Bug report logs - #1104262
cinnamon-control-center: remove no-longer-required dependency on apg

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Package: src:cinnamon-control-center; Maintainer for src:cinnamon-control-center is Debian Cinnamon Team <debian-cinnamon@lists.debian.org>;

Reported by: James Addison <jay@jp-hosting.net>

Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2025 21:33:01 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Tags: patch

Fixed in version 6.4.2-1

Done: Fabio Fantoni <fantonifabio@tiscali.it>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

Forwarded to https://salsa.debian.org/cinnamon-team/cinnamon-control-center/-/merge_requests/6

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Report forwarded to debian-bugs-dist@lists.debian.org, Debian GNOME Maintainers <pkg-gnome-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org>:
Bug#1104260; Package src:gnome-control-center. (Sun, 27 Apr 2025 21:33:01 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).

Acknowledgement sent to James Addison <jay@jp-hosting.net>:
New Bug report received and forwarded. Copy sent to Debian GNOME Maintainers <pkg-gnome-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org>. (Sun, 27 Apr 2025 21:33:01 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).

Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: James Addison <jay@jp-hosting.net>
To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>
Subject: gnome-control-center: remove no-longer-required dependency on apg
Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2025 22:31:19 +0100
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

Information forwarded to debian-bugs-dist@lists.debian.org, Debian GNOME Maintainers <pkg-gnome-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org>:
Bug#1104260; Package src:gnome-control-center. (Sun, 27 Apr 2025 21:45:02 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).

Acknowledgement sent to James Addison <jay@jp-hosting.net>:
Extra info received and forwarded to list. Copy sent to Debian GNOME Maintainers <pkg-gnome-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org>. (Sun, 27 Apr 2025 21:45:02 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).

Message #10 received at 1104260@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: James Addison <jay@jp-hosting.net>
To: Debian Bug Tracking System <1104260@bugs.debian.org>
Subject: Re: gnome-control-center: remove no-longer-required dependency on apg
Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2025 22:43:20 +0100
Source: gnome-control-center
Followup-For: Bug #1104260
Control: forwarded -1 https://salsa.debian.org/gnome-team/gnome-control-center/-/merge_requests/61

Set Bug forwarded-to-address to 'https://salsa.debian.org/gnome-team/gnome-control-center/-/merge_requests/61'. Request was from James Addison <jay@jp-hosting.net> to 1104260-submit@bugs.debian.org. (Sun, 27 Apr 2025 21:45:02 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).

Information forwarded to debian-bugs-dist@lists.debian.org, Debian GNOME Maintainers <pkg-gnome-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org>:
Bug#1104260; Package src:gnome-control-center. (Sun, 27 Apr 2025 22:27:02 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).

Acknowledgement sent to James Addison <jay@jp-hosting.net>:
Extra info received and forwarded to list. Copy sent to Debian GNOME Maintainers <pkg-gnome-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org>. (Sun, 27 Apr 2025 22:27:02 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).

Message #17 received at 1104260@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: James Addison <jay@jp-hosting.net>
To: Debian Bug Tracking System <1104260@bugs.debian.org>
Subject: Re: gnome-control-center: remove no-longer-required dependency on apg
Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2025 23:24:37 +0100
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.

Bug 1104260 cloned as bugs 1104261, 1104262 Request was from James Addison <jay@jp-hosting.net> to 1104260-submit@bugs.debian.org. (Sun, 27 Apr 2025 22:27:02 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).

Bug reassigned from package 'src:gnome-control-center' to 'src:cinnamon-control-center'. Request was from James Addison <jay@jp-hosting.net> to 1104260-submit@bugs.debian.org. (Sun, 27 Apr 2025 22:27:03 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).

Changed Bug title to 'cinnamon-control-center: remove no-longer-required dependency on apg' from 'gnome-control-center: remove no-longer-required dependency on apg'. Request was from James Addison <jay@jp-hosting.net> to 1104260-submit@bugs.debian.org. (Sun, 27 Apr 2025 22:27:04 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).

Information forwarded to debian-bugs-dist@lists.debian.org, Debian Cinnamon Team <debian-cinnamon@lists.debian.org>:
Bug#1104262; Package src:cinnamon-control-center. (Sun, 27 Apr 2025 22:36:01 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).

Acknowledgement sent to James Addison <jay@jp-hosting.net>:
Extra info received and forwarded to list. Copy sent to Debian Cinnamon Team <debian-cinnamon@lists.debian.org>. (Sun, 27 Apr 2025 22:36:01 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).

Message #28 received at 1104262@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: James Addison <jay@jp-hosting.net>
To: Debian Bug Tracking System <1104262@bugs.debian.org>
Subject: Re: cinnamon-control-center: remove no-longer-required dependency on apg
Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2025 23:32:50 +0100
Source: cinnamon-control-center
Followup-For: Bug #1104262
Control: forwarded -1 https://salsa.debian.org/cinnamon-team/cinnamon-control-center/-/merge_requests/6

Changed Bug forwarded-to-address to 'https://salsa.debian.org/cinnamon-team/cinnamon-control-center/-/merge_requests/6' from 'https://salsa.debian.org/gnome-team/gnome-control-center/-/merge_requests/61'. Request was from James Addison <jay@jp-hosting.net> to 1104262-submit@bugs.debian.org. (Sun, 27 Apr 2025 22:36:01 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).

Added tag(s) pending. Request was from James Addison <jay@jp-hosting.net> to control@bugs.debian.org. (Tue, 29 Apr 2025 11:30:02 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).

Reply sent to fantonifabio@tiscali.it:
You have taken responsibility. (Sat, 04 Oct 2025 16:07:03 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).

Notification sent to James Addison <jay@jp-hosting.net>:
Bug acknowledged by developer. (Sat, 04 Oct 2025 16:07:03 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).

Message #37 received at 1104262-done@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Fabio Fantoni <fantonifabio@tiscali.it>
To: 1104262-done@bugs.debian.org
Subject: close as fixed
Date: Sat, 4 Oct 2025 17:56:13 +0200
Version: 6.4.2-1

Bug archived. Request was from Debbugs Internal Request <owner@bugs.debian.org> to internal_control@bugs.debian.org. (Tue, 04 Nov 2025 07:27:50 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).

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