Bug#807485: gnome-keyring: pinentry-gnome3 should also be recommended and (hard) dependency should fallback on pinentry-gtk2

Wed Dec 9 13:08:31 UTC 2015

Package: gnome-keyring
Version: 3.18.2-1
Severity: normal

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Hi,

I understand from bug#787786 that GNOME should ensure that most
possible of its features is getting used.

As already pointed out in bug#787786#18, there are other sensible of
gnome-keyring other than in concert with the GNOME desktop.

I agree that favoring pinentry-gtk2 over pinentry-gnome is wrong, but
_only_ hard depending on pinentry-gnome makes it impossible¹ to use
gnome-keyring without also pulling in pinentry-gnome and its (for some
non-GNOME uses) too excessive dependencies.

Please consider the following, which I believe satisfies both the need
for ensuring best GNOME experience and supporting lighter alternatives:

  * Have dependency on pinentry-gnome fallback to pinentry-gtk2
  * Recommend pinentry-gnome

Thanks for considering,

 - Jonas

¹ Impossible while using pure Debian.  Custom tricks like creating a
fake package by same name is possible - resulting in a _derivative_ of
Debian.