[pkg-gnupg-maint] Bug#809682: Bug#809682: pinentry-qt4: pinentry dialog does not support pasting from clipboard

[Daniel Kahn Gillmor]

Control: force-merge 766108 809682

Hi Kynn--

(moving security mailing lists to bcc)

in https://bugs.debian.org/809682 , Kynn Jones <kynnjo at gmail.com> wrote:

> The pinentry password dialog does not support paste in any form, as
> far as I can tell.  Neither Ctrl-V nor Ctrl-Shift-V work, nor is
> pasting supported through a right-click-accessible context-specific
> menu.

This was resolved back in 0.9.0 for gtk2, and slightly more recently for
qt.  All the versions in testing are fixed already.  (see also
https://bugs.debian.org/766108 which discusses the same issue).

I agree with you that being able to copy/paste is better for both
usability and security than not being able to, but i also don't think
this is a grave bug.   If you've tried a newer version of pinentry, and
you find you can't copy/paste, please report back here!

Regards,

        --dkg