[Bug 1728431] [NEW] Usage of gpg-agent should not be enforced

[Xavier Gnata]

Public bug reported:

I don't know exactly which change triggers this behavior but now in 17.10, gpg-agent is started automatically.
As gpg-agent --homedir /home/xavier/.gnupg --use-standard-socket --daemon is running and it is not what I want. For some reasons, I want to type my password each time I want to decrypt my symmetrically encrypted foo.txt.gpg file. Alternatively, I want at least to be able to setup a timeout to a small value to force the agent to forget my password.

Uninstall gnnpg-agent? Yes it could work but I cannot:
sudo apt-get purge gnupg-agent
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 libgpgmepp6 : Depends: libgpgme11 (>= 1.8.0) but it is not going to be installed
 libkwalletbackend5-5 : Depends: libgpgme11 (>= 1.1.2) but it is not going to be installed
E: Error, pkgProblemResolver::Resolve generated breaks, this may be caused by held packages.

** Affects: gnupg2 (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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Title:
  Usage of gpg-agent should not be enforced

Status in gnupg2 package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  I don't know exactly which change triggers this behavior but now in 17.10, gpg-agent is started automatically.
  As gpg-agent --homedir /home/xavier/.gnupg --use-standard-socket --daemon is running and it is not what I want. For some reasons, I want to type my password each time I want to decrypt my symmetrically encrypted foo.txt.gpg file. Alternatively, I want at least to be able to setup a timeout to a small value to force the agent to forget my password.

  Uninstall gnnpg-agent? Yes it could work but I cannot:
  sudo apt-get purge gnupg-agent
  Reading package lists... Done
  Building dependency tree       
  Reading state information... Done
  Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
  requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
  distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
  or been moved out of Incoming.
  The following information may help to resolve the situation:

  The following packages have unmet dependencies:
   libgpgmepp6 : Depends: libgpgme11 (>= 1.8.0) but it is not going to be installed
   libkwalletbackend5-5 : Depends: libgpgme11 (>= 1.1.2) but it is not going to be installed
  E: Error, pkgProblemResolver::Resolve generated breaks, this may be caused by held packages.

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