[pkg-gnupg-maint] Bug#834368: Bug#834368: gnupg: update to gnupg2 broke gpg-agent autostart

Tue Aug 16 08:27:00 UTC 2016

On Mon, 15 Aug 2016 15:40, nomeata at debian.org said:

> I did not further debug it, but one guess is that there is no DISPLAY
> variable set, so pinentry fails?

That might be the case; I can't tell for sure because I am not not
running systemd.  However

  gpg-connect-agent updatestartuptty /bye

will set the DISPLAY to the current value.  I use that command after
switching to a different xserver (e.g. from laptop to desktop).

With gpg there is no need for this as gpg tells gpg-agent about the
DISPLAY and some other vars.  the ssh-agent protocols has no such
feature (volunteers to work on this welcome).

Shalom-Salam,

   Werner

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