Bug#787860: make seahorse friendly to all gpg versions

[Michael Biebl]

Am 05.06.2015 um 23:02 schrieb Daniel Kahn Gillmor:
> On Fri 2015-06-05 15:41:07 -0400, Michael Biebl wrote:
>> Am 05.06.2015 um 21:33 schrieb Michael Biebl:
>>> On Fri, 05 Jun 2015 14:57:40 -0400 Daniel Kahn Gillmor
>>>> (the attached patch touches both ./configure.ac and ./configure -- since
>>>> the package appears to be doing autoreconf, maybe the modifications to
>>>> ./configure are unnecessary)
>>
>> We do not patch ./configure directly but resort to dh-autoreconf in such
>> cases for two reasons
>> 1/ The patch doesn't need updates on each new upstream release
>> 2/ It's simpler to forward the patch to upstream
> 
> I agree with both of these reasons.  They're why i like to dh-autoreconf
> on other packages too.
> 
>> And yes, seahorse already uses dh-autoreconf, so you can drop the bits
>> which touch ./configure.
> 
> Attached is a revised simplified patch, which only touches configure.ac
> and pgp/seahorse-pgp-backend.c.
> 
> Would you be willing to apply it to the debian package?  That would be
> great!

I see that a patch for gcr has been proposed upstream for gcr, which
strips the mnemonics as long as gnome-shell doesn't support them properly.

I think with this patch, all bits and pieces should be ready and I'll
see if can can tie all this together and make uploads for gcr and
gnome-keyring.

Thanks Daniel for being so persistent.


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