[pkg-gnupg-maint] Bug#853905: Bug#853905: Ships incorrect /usr/lib/systemd/user/sockets.target.wants files, makes disabling impossible

[Daniel Kahn Gillmor]

On Mon 2017-02-06 12:34:36 -0500, Yuri D'Elia wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 06 2017, Michael Biebl wrote:
>>> These are all single processes just waiting.
>>> So for gpg purposes, the agent is working as intended.
>>> However, I'm perplexed as of why I have so many running.
>>
>> I guess all of this could be solved if gnupg-agent was using
>> exit-on-idle (with some sensible default for the timeout). Or is there a
>> reason why you want/need to keep gnupg-agent running all time?
>
> To do the right thing, you'd need to consider the current timeout
> settings for each key currently in the agent.

Right, the right thing to do there would be to have gpg-agent itself
just terminate quietly and cleanly when all of its caches expire, if
it's not keeping any state.  It'll get re-launched anyway when needed.

I've just raised this upstream at:

    https://bugs.gnupg.org/gnupg/issue2946

Regards,

    --dkg
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