#1104262 cinnamon-control-center: remove no-longer-required dependency on apg

Package:
src:cinnamon-control-center
Source:
src:cinnamon-control-center
Submitter:
James Addison
Date:
2025-04-29 11:30:02 UTC
Severity:
normal
Tags:
#1104262#5
Date:
2025-04-27 21:31:19 UTC
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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
#1104262#10
Date:
2025-04-27 21:43:20 UTC
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#1104262#17
Date:
2025-04-27 22:24:37 UTC
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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.
#1104262#28
Date:
2025-04-27 22:32:50 UTC
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