[pkg-gnupg-maint] Bug#791441: Add more flexible mechanism to set the default pinentry per desktop environment

[Michael Biebl]

Package: gnupg-agent
Version: 2.0.28-3
Severity: important
File: /usr/bin/gpg-agent

Hi Daniel,

the default pinentry is setup via the alternatives mechanism, i.e.
system wide. Installing pinentry-qt4 switched the default pinentry from
gnome3 to qt4, since pinentry-qt4 has a higher priority.

This is definitely not something we want inside the GNOME desktop.

Please provide a mechanism in gnupg-agent to select the default pinentry
program on a per desktop basis.

The same problem is valid for other desktop environments, e.g. Xfce
might prefer the gtk2 pinentry program and simply having pinentry-gnome3
installed shouldn't break that.

Regards,
Michael


-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (200, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.0.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.utf8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages gnupg-agent depends on:
ii  libassuan0                  2.2.1-1
ii  libc6                       2.19-18
ii  libgcrypt20                 1.6.3-2
ii  libgpg-error0               1.19-2
ii  libpth20                    2.0.7-20
ii  libreadline6                6.3-8+b3
ii  pinentry-curses [pinentry]  0.9.4-2
ii  pinentry-gnome3 [pinentry]  0.9.4-2
ii  pinentry-qt4 [pinentry]     0.9.4-2

Versions of packages gnupg-agent recommends:
ii  gnupg   1.4.19-3
ii  gnupg2  2.0.28-3

gnupg-agent suggests no packages.

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