* Michael Biebl (biebl@debian.org) wrote: > Am 23.10.2014 um 03:36 schrieb Eric Dorland: > > Control: reassign -1 tasksel > > Control: retitle -1 please add dependencies on pinentry > > Control: tags -1 patch > > > > Reassigning to tasksel as suggested and patch attached. > > > > * Eric Dorland (eric@debian.org) wrote: > >> Package: gnome > >> Version: 1:3.8+8 > >> Severity: wishlist > >> > >> This came up at a DebConf discussion around gnupg2. Right now gnupg-agent > >> (required by newer gnupg versions) needs a pinentry program (basically a > >> program that prompts for a PIN or password). Right now it depends on > >> pinentry-gtk2, which gives a good experience for users with a desktop > >> environment but pulls in a lot of dependencies for a non-graphical system. > >> > >> So we would like to switch to pinentry-curses instead to lighten the > >> dependency load, but we'd also not like to regress the experience for > >> users of graphical desktops. So if it was added to the task package then > >> those users would get the better experience and we could move the default > >> depedency to pinentry-curses. > >> > >> I suspect Recommends would also be a strong enough dependency relationship > >> for this purpose. Thanks for your consideration. > > gnome-shell has a builtin gpg password prompter. > So at least for GNOME, it's not necessary to install pinentry-gtk2. Hmmm, are you talking about gnome-keyring? It actually hijacks the gpg-agent protocol and breaks some things (see http://b/760102). You still need the pinentry program if you disable gnome-keyright AFAIK. -- Eric Dorland <eric@kuroneko.ca> 43CF 1228 F726 FD5B 474C E962 C256 FBD5 0022 1E93
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