You gloss over the security issues in your MIR description. The most recent release fixed three CVEs...
Given such security sensitiveness of gnupg wrappers, can you explain why it'd be worth having two python wrappers in main? We already have python-gpgme. Do they offer different functionality? ** Changed in: python-gnupg (Ubuntu) Status: New => Incomplete -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to python-gnupg in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1367004 Title: [MIR] python-gnupg Status in “python-gnupg” package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Bug description: Availability: % apt-cache show python-gnupg | grep -i section Section: universe/python Rationale: As shown here: http://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-archive/component-mismatches-proposed.svg python-gnupg is a run-time dependency of system-image, which is the system upgrader for, and seeded into Ubuntu Touch. Security, QA The package is well supported upstream, in Debian, and in Ubuntu. LP: #1283783 describes an upgrading bug, but I have not yet investigated it. UI standards: n/a Dependencies: None that aren't already in main. Standards compliance: No known issues. Maintenance: No known issues. This is the generally accepted best gnupg wrapper for Python. It supports both Python 2 and 3. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/python-gnupg/+bug/1367004/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp