[pkg-gnupg-maint] Bug#870522: Bug#870522: gnupg1: Consider setting use-agent by default

[Jeremy Bicha]

On Wed, Aug 2, 2017 at 7:08 PM, Daniel Kahn Gillmor
<dkg at fifthhorseman.net> wrote:
> What do you think about this patch instead of your proposed patch?
> +    opt.use_agent = 1;

Sure, that sounds great.

> The trouble, of course, is that now the gnupg1 package now effectively
> Depends: gpg-agent, which brings with it a bunch of other dependencies,
> which has historically caused a lot of grumbling.  Is it worthwhile to
> pay that price?

Since gnupg(2) already depends on gnupg-agent and we don't want to
give people a good reason to use gnupg1, I'm hoping it won't be a
problem.

> I don't want to spend a ton of time on gnupg1

Me either; that's why I filed this bug report so it will just autosync
to Ubuntu in the future. :)

Thanks,
Jeremy Bicha