[pkg-gnupg-maint] Bug#1024417: kgpg FTBFS: Did not find GPGME

[Andreas Metzler]

On 2022-11-19 Helmut Grohne <helmut at subdivi.de> wrote:
[...]
> kgpg fails to build from source in unstable. The relevant portion is:

> | -- No usable gpgme flavors found.
[...]
> I think this is due to gpgme having dropped its gpgme-config tool in
> favour of providing a .pc file. I think the change is good in principle,
> but the transition is executed in a bad way. gpgme-config was always
> difficult for cross compilation while .pc just works.

> In any case, this puts kgpg into a difficult spot. I hope you can deal
> with it somehow. I've put the gpgme maintainers in the loop for
> assistance.

Hello,

Unless kgpg maintainers/upstream has a strong opinion against using
pkg-config the obvious choice would be to drop cmake/FindGpgme.cmake
and simply use FindPkgConfig. - Attached patch seems to work for me,
i.e. build including dh_auto_test works.

cu Andreas
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