[Pkg-gnupg-maint] Bug#709104: Should not Depends or Recommends gnupg-agent

[Josh Triplett]

On Sun, Jan 04, 2015 at 06:16:34PM -0500, Eric Dorland wrote:
> Control: tags -1 wontfix
> 
> * Josh Triplett (josh at joshtriplett.org) wrote:
> > Package: gnupg2
> > Followup-For: Bug #709104
> > 
> > Another possible alternative that would address this bug: modify the
> > existing dependency on gnupg-agent to allow alternative implementations
> > of the agent protocol, such as gnome-keyring.
> > 
> > (To respond to an earlier message: gnome-keyring does not "proxy"
> > gpg-agent or ssh-agent, it replaces them completely.)
> 
> So to summarize, there's basically two bugs. One is the dependency set
> pulled in by pinentry-gtk2, which is better tracked in #753163.
> 
> Given the further coupling of gpg-agent and gpg in 2.1 I don't think
> we can relax the dependency.

Fair enough.  Perhaps in a future version of GPG, when GPG manages to
factor out a library or two, we can revisit this.

- Josh Triplett