installation fails because libgpgme cannot be found

[HerrMuellerluedenscheid]

I ran apt install libgpgme-dev which installed as expected.
pip install fails with:

Collecting gpg>=1.10.0
  Using cached gpg-1.10.0.tar.gz (39 kB)
  Preparing metadata (setup.py) ... error
  error: subprocess-exited-with-error

  × python setup.py egg_info did not run successfully.
  │ exit code: 1
  ╰─> [1 lines of output]
      Could not find gpgme-config.  Please install the libgpgme development package.
      [end of output]

On python 3.11.2

No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID:	Debian
Description:	Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm)
Release:	12
Codename:	bookworm

[HerrMuellerluedenscheid]

Stems from the gpg bindings (which are 6 years old)
https://pypi.org/project/gpg/#history

Maybe switch to python cryptography module?