Bug#754120: ITP: python-gnupg-ng -- A Python wrapper for GnuPG

[Ansgar Burchardt <ansgar@debian.org>]

Hi,

Ben Carrillo <ben@futeisha.org> writes:
> This is a fork of python-gnupg (from version 0.3.2), patched to
> sanitize untrusted inputs, due to the necessity of executing
> subprocess.Popen([...], shell=True) in order to communicate with GnuPG.

Why exactly should shell=True be necessary?

Ansgar