Bug#760102: gnome-keyring: Breaks gpg-agent with no UI to disable

[Mark Brown]

On Tue, Sep 02, 2014 at 09:31:30AM +0200, Sjoerd Simons wrote:
> On Sun, 2014-08-31 at 19:47 +0100, Mark Brown wrote:

> > which is a serious issue; I also use my smartcard as a SSH key and this
> > usage is also broken.  There used to be a UI to edit the startup
> > applications but this seems to have been removed.

> gnome-session-properties is indeed gone. You can still configure this by
> hand by removing the relevant startup application
> from /etc/xdg/autostart. See /usr/share/doc/gnome-keyring/README.Debian
> for more information.

This is in fact how I resolved the issue locally but it is not great for
multi-user systems or systems where the same user account is shared
between many systems; in general having to edit files in /etc in order
to get desktop environment functionality working doesn't seem like a
good situation.  The balance between what's being provided and the
difficulty in disabling it doesn't seem right; perhaps Debian ought to
be defaulting to gpg-agent instead (I'm not sure if there's anything in
GNOME that depends on keyring providing this functionality).
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