[Pkg-samba-maint] Bug#876984: python-samba: Remove Suggests on python-gpgme

[Andrew Bartlett]

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-devel at 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

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