[pkg-gnupg-maint] Bug#820676: https://bugs.debian.org/820676 is known and expected upstream.

[David Bremner]

Daniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg at fifthhorseman.net> writes:

>
> I'll add 
>   Note, that the tool @command{gpg-preset-passphrase}, which comes
>   with GnuPG-2, cannot be used to preset a passphrase for this
>   version of GnuPG.
> to the gpg 1 man page.
> --------------------
>
> When this change makes it into the documentation, i'll close the debian bug.

I'm not surprised by the technical limitation, but it's a bit
disappointing. As the (soon-to-be-ex) upstream maintainer of Mail::GnuPG
I have just given up testing the ssh-agent related functionality (more
precisely, started ignoring failures on these tests). I expect many
people will continue running gpg1, with gpg-agent 2.1 (since that's the
only gpg-agent available to them).  Perhaps Werner should deprecate this
configuration (and push people to migrate) if it's not a sensible thing
to do.

Not that I disagree with closing the bug, just commenting for the record.

d
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