Bug#765406: [Pkg-gnupg-maint] Bug#765406: please add dependency on pinentry-gtk2

[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 at 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.

-- 
Eric Dorland <eric at kuroneko.ca>
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