[pkg-gnupg-maint] Bug#1070879: please make mail-transfer-agent optional

[Michael Tokarev]

11.05.2024 09:14, Michael Tokarev wrote:
..
> Please note the function gnupg uses email for is very rarely used, -
> it's been many years when gpg-wks-server has been built without even
> specifying path to sendmail binary, it's been fixed only in #1025782
> in 2024.

Okay, it looks like I was wrong.  gpg-wks-server is the one which actually
uses email (for confirmation)...

> Even better if gpg-wks-server itself becomes "more optional", - right
> now it is installed on all my (at least desktop) systems.  But this
> is a different matter it seems (looks more like bugs in other packages
> who blindly depend on whole gnupg instead of certain components they
> actually use).

but it is the other packages which wrongly require whole gnupg, including
gpg-wks-server, while actually using only main part of it.  I just filed
#1070882 against devscripts - which seems to be the main reason all my
desktop systems has gpg-wks-server which is not used by anything.  Also
#1070880 against dput-ng.

Thanks,

/mjt
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