Source: gnupg2 Version: 2.4.4-1 Severity: minor Starting 2.4.4-1, gnupg depends on mail-transfer-agent. Unfortunately, these days, less and less systems actually have email system configured, especially home/laptop/etc systems (when email is done though a web UI). We had mail-transfer-agent almost mandatory in debian for quite a while, because cron used to depend on it for emailing status of failing jobs (among others), - now cron is finally optional itself, and it's possible to install a system without email.
And now it becomes mandatory once again, now coming from gnupg side. Please note the function gnupg uses email for is very rarely used, - it's been many years when gpg-wks-server has been built without even specifying path to sendmail binary, it's been fixed only in #1025782 in 2024. Please make m-t-a at least Recommends (instead of Depends), or even better, - Suggests, because about 99.99% of gnupg users will never need it but configuring mta is a real burden (and it even can't be done in many cases). Even better if gpg-wks-server itself becomes "more optional", - right now it is installed on all my (at least desktop) systems. But this is a different matter it seems (looks more like bugs in other packages who blindly depend on whole gnupg instead of certain components they actually use). Thanks, /mjt
