Architecture: any Platform: all Depends: gnupg-common (= ${Binary-Version}) Description: GNU Privacy Guard system - OpenPGP signature verification tool ${Common-Description} . "gpgv" is actually a stripped-down version of "gpg" which is only able to check signatures. It is somewhat smaller than the fully-blown "gpg" and uses a different (and simpler) way to check that the public keys used to make the signature are valid. There are no configuration files and only a few options are implemented.