[pkg-gnupg-maint] GPA and gpg-agent and it's peculiarities

[Andreas Ronnquist]

Hi dkg and others!

(Mentioning you dkg, since you are listed as a co-maintainer of gpa
together with me).

I hope you all enjoyed debconf - I have watched the gpg-related talks
and BoFs.

What are your thoughts about gpa and it's relation gpg-agent? We have
got a few bugreports, even with a solution, regarding the gpg-agent
problems that has been visible lately.

(See #760237 [1], #761026 [2], and #790737 [3] which contains a
workaround [4])

1 - http://bugs.debian.org/760237
2 - http://bugs.debian.org/761026
3 - http://bugs.debian.org/790737
4 - https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=790737#25http://bugs.debian.org/790737#25

I don't know about this solution, it seems a bit "hackish" to
me, so I am open for suggestions and ideas. To me it looks like most of
this will be solved "by itself" when we get gpg 2.1 into unstable, and
gnome-keyring behaves as it should.

Comments, ideas, thoughts?

-- Andreas Rönnquist
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