dirmngr (2.1.18-1) unstable; urgency=medium If your machine is configured with system user session management, dirmngr will be managed automatically by systemd's user sessions on machines configured with use systemd. Please consider installing the packages that the dirmngr package Suggests:, and see /usr/share/doc/dirmngr/README.Debian for more details. -- Daniel Kahn Gillmor Mon, 23 Jan 2017 22:50:34 -0500 dirmngr (2.1.13-3) experimental; urgency=medium gpg and most related processes will auto-launch dirmngr if needed. Any user who wants to launch dirmngr manually should do so with: gpgconf --launch dirmngr and may want to terminate dirmngr when their session ends with: gpgconf --kill dirmngr Users on machines with systemd can ensure that dirmngr is always running for their session (and that it gets terminated at logout) with: gpgconf --kill dirmngr systemctl --user enable dirmngr systemctl --user start dirmngr -- Daniel Kahn Gillmor Tue, 28 Jun 2016 17:55:15 -0400 dirmngr (2.1.0~beta895-1) experimental; urgency=medium No more dirmngr system service! =============================== As of the 2.1.0 beta series, dirmngr is a local daemon that works closely with gnupg2. It is launched on its own, per-user, and listens on a standard socket (usually ~/.gnupg/S.dirmngr). There is no more system-wide dirmngr process. If there is a special case where a dirmngr system process is actually needed, please report a bug in dirmngr, and we can sort out a way to set one up for that case so that everyone with dirmngr installed doesn't need to have it running. -- Daniel Kahn Gillmor Tue, 07 Oct 2014 10:33:52 -0400