Bug#1040653: gnome-keyring: Depends upon pinentry-gtk instead of pinentry

Lisandro Damian Nicanor Perez Meyer perezmeyer at gmail.com
Sun Jul 9 16:26:17 BST 2023


On domingo, 9 de julio de 2023 12:20:44 -03 Lisandro Damian Nicanor Perez 
Meyer wrote:
> On sábado, 8 de julio de 2023 12:38:53 -03 Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez
> Meyer wrote:
> [snip]
> 
> > Hi! gnome-keyring depends upon pinentry-gtk instead of just pinentry.
> > This forces the installation of the gtk versions on systems that might
> > as well use the curses or Qt versions of pinentry.
> > 
> > If you want you could use pinentry as a dependency and pinentry-gtk as a
> > recommendation, thus installaing the GTK version by default on systems
> > that do not have any other pinentry package installed, but still
> > allowing the user to choose which pinentry version to install.
> 
> Actually the dependency can be changed to
> 
>   pinentry | pinentry-gtk
> 
> **unless** it is expected to have a GUI, in which case the dependency can be
> 
>   pinentry-x11 | pinentry- gtk

My apologies, it needs to be the other way around in order to avoid apt 
picking a random one, so either

  pinentry-gtk | pinentry

or

  pinenty-gtk | pinentry-x11

Thanks Pino Toscano for the tip!
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