On Tue 2017-11-28 09:22:48 +0100, Werner Koch wrote: > On Tue, 28 Nov 2017 00:49, d...@fifthhorseman.net said: > >> The fact is, libgpgme explicitly fails in many use cases if gpg-agent or >> dirmngr are not available. This partial, unpredictable failure is not > > It should return an error like No Agent, No Dirmngr, or No Pinentry. If > not that is a bug either in GnuPG or gpgme.
indeed, this is the "explicit failure" that i am talking about. I see no reason to inflict this on users by default, which is what is likely to happen for anything using gpgme on debian if the library package does not explicitly depend on the full suite. --dkg