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

[Daniel Kahn Gillmor]

On Tue 2015-08-25 15:32:03 -0400, Werner Koch <wk at gnupg.org> wrote:
> On Tue, 25 Aug 2015 18:52, biebl at debian.org said:
>
>> Hm, that's strange. I did get the GNOME3 pinentry dialogs when using
>> TB/Icedove + enigmail with gpg2.0. So for me the current behaviour is a
>
> Probably because gpg-agent has been started withn the right dbus session
> information.  With 2.1 gpg-agent is started only demand and not by
> .xsession.
>
> As a workaround you may want to 
>
>   gpg-connect-agent /bye
>
> before you start Icedove.  This launches gpg-agent.  Well, if you know
> that it is 2.1, you may also use 
>
>   gpgconf --launch gpg-agent
>
>> Anyway, does this bug need to be re-assigned then to enigmail?
>
> Yep.  We can't do anything about it in GnuPG or Pinentry.

please see https://bugs.debian.org/794627 -- is this the same issue?

       --dkg