Hmm, this appears to be broken on all CI builds. Even when gpgme is correctly installed.
I am stumped.

Debian no longer ships gpgme-config and 'pip download gpg' fails.

Do we need to move to another package for pgp/gpg support?

Maybe we can use:

  https://pypi.org/project/gpg-lite/?? It supports python 3.7+ but last update was 2022. 

  https://pypi.org/project/gpyg/ was updated in 2024 but support starts at 3.12.