[pkg-gnupg-maint] Bug#787313: Bug#787313: Bug#787313: Bug#787313: Systemd user unit for gnupg-agent

Moritz Muehlenhoff jmm at inutil.org
Wed Jun 3 18:34:33 UTC 2015


On Wed, Jun 03, 2015 at 02:22:07PM -0400, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:
> On Wed 2015-06-03 13:30:21 -0400, Moritz Mühlenhoff wrote:
> > On Wed, Jun 03, 2015 at 10:03:42AM +0200, Werner Koch wrote:
> >> On Wed,  3 Jun 2015 08:05, gniibe at fsij.org said:
> >> 
> >> > Thank you.  I think it makes sense.
> >> 
> >> I don't think so.  GnuPG uses a locking mechanism to avoid that several
> >> instances of gpg and friends start gpg-agent.  Thus watching the socket
> >> file and starting gpg-agent on a connect attempt won't work too well.
> >
> > I wasn't aware of the new agent standard socket and the on-demand loading
> > you mentioned. I agree that's the better approach than using a systemd
> > unit.
> 
> Should we mark this bug as wontfix, then, or close it?

I'm fine either way. 

Cheers,
        Moritz



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