* Josh Triplett (j...@joshtriplett.org) wrote:
> Package: gnupg2
> Severity: normal
> 
> Many packages depend on libgpgme11, which depends on gnupg2, which
> currently depends on gnupg-agent.  gnupg-agent attempts to become the
> default agent for X11 sessions (potentially interfering with the user's
> existing agent such as gnome-keyring), and additionally pulls in a giant
> pile of GUI dependencies via its dependency on pinentry-gtk2.  gnupg2
> does not require gnupg-agent, nor is it even particularly unusual to
> have gnupg2 installed without gnupg-agent on many systems.  Thus, I'd
> suggest that gnupg2 should only Suggests gnupg-agent.

In what way does gnupg2 not depend on gnupg? If you want to enter a
password into gnupg2 gpg-agent is a requirement.
 
> - Josh Triplett
> 
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: jessie/sid
>   APT prefers unstable
>   APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
> Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
> 
> Kernel: Linux 3.8-1-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

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