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

[Andreas Metzler]

Control: reassign -1 gnupg 2.4.4-1
Control: tags -1 pending

On 2024-05-11 Michael Tokarev <mjt at tls.msk.ru> wrote:
> 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.

Hello Micheal,

Thank you for submitting these bugs.

FWIW I have downgraded the metapackage gnupg2's dependency on
gpg-wks-server to a suggests in GIT. (Which IIRC mirrors Ubuntu's
choice.)

cu Andreas

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