On Sat, 2017-10-14 at 20:46 -0400, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: > On Wed 2017-09-27 13:47:52 +0200, Dr. Tobias Quathamer wrote: > > your package suggests python-gpgme in d/control. Please note that the > > package python-gpgme will be removed from Debian unstable soon > > (https://bugs.debian.org/876844). > > > > If the successor "python-pgp" can be used as well with your package, > > then please suggest python-pgp instead. Otherwise, please just remove > > python-gpgme from d/control. > > Just to be clear, the successor supported by GnuPG upstream is > python-gpg (or, preferably, python3-gpg), not python-pgp. If there are > difficulties in porting things to python-gpg, please raise those concerns > on the upstream mailing list: > > GnuPG Developer Discussion <gnupg-de...@gnupg.org> > > Thanks to Tobias for his triage work in encouraging this sort of > cleanup in debian.
Is gpgme in general unsupported, or just the python-gpgme? I'm not at all sure that this is trivial to change in Samba away from gpgme, but it may be possible to change the small use of python-gpgme. However such a patch would need to be developed and submitted upstream to Samba, we try very hard not to carry debian-specific patches in the Samba packages. I'll also note that Samba's dependency is somewhere between Recommends and Suggests. samba-tool, part of samba-common-bin imports python- gpgme and uses it for part of the expected functionality. However, most users will not use the impacted feature, and the import error is trapped with a helpful message printed. Thanks, Andrew Bartlett -- Andrew Bartlett http://samba.org/~abartlet/ Authentication Developer, Samba Team http://samba.org Samba Developer, Catalyst IT http://catalyst.net.nz/services/samba