[pkg-gnupg-maint] Bug#850657: gnupg: Please find gpg-agent on PATH

[Ian Jackson]

Package: gnupg
Version: 2.1.17-3
Severity: minor
Tags: upstream

gpg executes /usr/bin/gpg-agent, rather than fetching it from the
PATH.

This is contrary to Debian policy.  (This behaviour got in my way
because I wanted to pass exciting options to gpg-agent, which involved
contortions.)

Please change the package to execute all its programs from PATH.
Ideally upstream would change too but my experience is that upstreams
often don't like this kind of change.

Thanks,
Ian.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
  APT prefers testing-debug
  APT policy: (500, 'testing-debug'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.8.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init)

Versions of packages gnupg depends on:
ii  gnupg-agent    2.1.17-3+~iwj
ii  libassuan0     2.4.3-2+~iwj
ii  libbz2-1.0     1.0.6-8
ii  libc6          2.24-8
ii  libgcrypt20    1.7.3-2
ii  libgpg-error0  1.25-2
ii  libksba8       1.3.5-2
ii  libreadline7   7.0-1
ii  libsqlite3-0   3.15.2-1
ii  zlib1g         1:1.2.8.dfsg-4

Versions of packages gnupg recommends:
ii  dirmngr     2.1.17-3+~iwj
ii  gnupg-l10n  2.1.17-2

Versions of packages gnupg suggests:
pn  parcimonie  <none>
ii  xloadimage  4.1-24

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