[pkg-gnupg-maint] Bug#842015: Bug#842015: Bug#842015: Similar issue, no emacs

[Werner Koch]

On Thu,  3 Nov 2016 18:51, vincent at vinc17.net said:

> The fallback to Curses is actually a bug when --no-tty is provided
> as a gpg option, because this is documented as:

I agree.

> So, the terminal can't be used to output the prompt for the
> passphrase. I suppose that applications that do not know how
> to redraw the screen use this option.

No, this option predates gpg-agent and I have not used it for years.  We
would need to convey this option to pinemtry via gpg-error.  Simply
unsetting GPG_TTY is not enough.


Shalom-Salam,

   Werner

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