[Pkg-gnupg-maint] Bug#738485: libgpgme11 passphrase prompt in terminal followup

[Francesco Poli]

On Tue, 23 Sep 2014 12:28:33 -0400 Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:

[...]
> hi Francesco and Laurent--

Hello Daniel,
thanks for following up on my bug report.

> 
> can you tell me whether the problem you both reported at
> https://bugs.debian.org/738485 is still affecting sylpheed and/or claws
> mail when using 1.5.1-5 (or whatever is in testing or unstable when you
> get around to trying this out)?

I am still experiencing the problem with sylpheed/3.5.0~beta1~r3420-1
and libgpgme11/1.5.1-5, even in signing this very message.

> 
> I've tried with both sylpheed and claws-mail locally, and got gpg-agent
> to prompt me via the usual graphical pinentry each time.
> 
> Is it possible that you don't have a graphical pinentry installed?

Yes, it turns out that I only have the text user interface (curses) one installed.

> 
> can you show me the output of:
> 
>  dpkg -l '*pinentry*'

$ dpkg -l '*pinentry*'
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name           Version      Architecture Description
+++-==============-============-============-=================================
un  pinentry       <none>       <none>       (no description available)
ii  pinentry-curse 0.8.3-2      amd64        curses-based PIN or pass-phrase e
un  pinentry-doc   <none>       <none>       (no description available)
un  pinentry-gtk2  <none>       <none>       (no description available)
$ aptitude why pinentry-curses 
i   gpgsm       Depends gnupg-agent (= 2.0.26-2)                  
i A gnupg-agent Depends pinentry-gtk2 | pinentry-curses | pinentry


For some obscure reason, during the upgrade aptitude did not select
pinentry-gtk2 for installation to satisfy the (supposedly) new
dependency.
Maybe I had pinentry-curses already installed for some reason, or maybe
some other condition made aptitude prefer to satisfy the dependency
with pinentry-curses...

Unfortunately, I no longer have aptitude logs from last February, hence
I cannot further investigate _now_ ...


** Breaking news! **
I've just tried installing pinentry-gtk2 and sylpheed now prompts
me for the GPG passphrase in a graphical dialog window, as it used to
do long time ago!
As far as I am concerned, I think the only mystery left to be
investigated (and fixed) is: why didn't I get pinentry-gtk2 pulled in by
dependency during the upgrade process?



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