Hi,

On Mon, Jun 19, 2017 at 06:11:31PM +0100, Andrei Morgan wrote:
> This seems to be related to/the same as Bug#835719. I have just upgraded
> from 'jessie' to 'stretch' (i.e. debian stable upgrade). Now I am unable
> to use monkeysphere:
> 
>     0 user@computer:~$ monkeysphere s
>     /usr/share/monkeysphere/m/subkey_to_ssh_agent: line 123: agent-transfer: 
> command not found
>     127 user@computer:~$
> 
> I'm afraid I get no additional information

<snip>

> Versions of packages monkeysphere depends on:
> ii  adduser                           3.115
> ii  gnupg                             2.1.18-6
> ii  libcrypt-openssl-rsa-perl         0.28-5
> ii  libperl5.24 [libdigest-sha-perl]  5.24.1-3
> ii  lockfile-progs                    0.1.17+b1
> 
> Versions of packages monkeysphere recommends:
> pn  agent-transfer               <none>
> ii  cron [cron-daemon]           3.0pl1-128+b1
> ii  netcat-traditional [netcat]  1.10-41+b1
> ii  openssh-client               1:7.4p1-10
> pn  ssh-askpass                  <none>

ok, I figured it out following the bugreport: when I upgraded, I was manually 
required to install monkeysphere. When I manually install, I generally use the 
option --no-install-recommends in order to keep bloat out of my system (which 
variously suffers anyway).

Turns out package 'agent-transfer' is recommended rather than a
dependency. I realised this after seeing a similar problem with GPG and
finding bug #845720 where dkg highlights the differences between
Recommends and Depends.

I believe 'agent-transfer' should be a Depends and therefore this is a
bug in the debian package.

Best wishes,

     -- Andrei

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Andrei Morgan MRCPCH, MSc, PhD (Epidemiology / Neonatology)
https://www.andreimorgan.net/info/contact

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