[pkg-gnupg-maint] Bug#848999: gnupg-agent: Fails to work

[Joerg Jaspert]

reassign 848999 pinentry-gtk2
notfound 848999 2.1.16-3
found 848999 1.0.0-1
affects 848999 gnupg-agent
thanks

(Lets see if the affects works out, never used before.

On 14528 March 1977, Joerg Jaspert wrote:
> Package: gnupg-agent
> Version: 2.1.16-3
> Severity: important

> not an easy problem to describe, but from the effects on me, grave or
> critical ought to be the Severity...

> Since the switch to gpg2 as default and especially with the latest
> version recently appeared in stretch, gnupg-agent is about unusable
> here. It basically refuses to work in 98% of the times.

[...]

> Now, how to debug this and find a cause and fix?

While noone else has actually send anything in ( :( ), I got a reply
from upstream, which made me play around with settings. Didn't help
much, but one sentence mentioned brokenness in the pinentry-gnome part.

Also, I was using pinentry-gtk2 all the time, so that shouldn't hit, but
well, change it, worth a try. And voila, I put pinentry-qt onto my
system and update-alternative-d it to be the one in use - and since then
(2 days by now!), I did not have the mentioned problems anymore.

Both, -gtk2 and -qt have the same version number and appear to be from
same source, but qt works for me, gtk2 not.

-- 
bye, Joerg