[pkg-gnupg-maint] Bug#796564: Bug#796564: Upgrade to gpg2.1 breaks enigmail

[Michael Biebl]

Am 23.08.2015 um 17:21 schrieb Werner Koch:
> On Sat, 22 Aug 2015 18:21, biebl at debian.org said:
> 
>> since the upgrade from gpg 2.0 to 2.1, enigmail no longer works
>> properly. I use enigmail 1.8.2 which defaults to /usr/bin/gpg2.
> 
> IIRC, Enigmail resets the environment when calling gpg and thus Pinentry
> does not get the dbus session info.  As a workaround you may switch to
> the pinentry-gtk-2.

Installing pinentry-gtk2 and setting pinentry-gtk2 as the default via
update-alternatives, does indeed bring back the pinentry dialog in
icedove/thunderbird and enigmail.

Is this a bug in enigmail then? Any ideas why this worked with gpg2.0?


Cheers,
Michael

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