[pkg-gnupg-maint] Bug#839614: Bug#839614: gnupg2: what happened to scdaemon?

[Daniel Kahn Gillmor]

On Sun 2016-10-02 19:29:27 -0700, NIIBE Yutaka wrote:
> I replied only to the pkg-gnupg-maint list.  I send again to the bug
> tracker.
>
> ====================
> On 10/03/2016 06:44 AM, Kevin Gallagher wrote:
>> I updated packages at some point and now my smartcards don't work,
>> because scdaemon has disappeared.
>
> In the migration of gnupg2 to gnupg, scdaemon's path has been changed.
> It is now: /usr/lib/gnupg/scdaemon
>
>> $ cat ~/.gnupg/gpg-agent.conf
>> pinentry-program /usr/local/bin/pinentry-qt
>> keep-display
>> display :0.0
>> enable-ssh-support
>> default-cache-ttl 14400
>> max-cache-ttl 14400
>> scdaemon-program /usr/lib/gnupg2/scdaemon
>> sh
>> debug-level none
>> homedir /home/kevin/.gnupg
>
> You can remove the option scdaemon-program, then it will work.
> I wonder the reason why you have that.

I also wonder about that.  If it's a common misconfiguration, perhaps we
should provide a symlink in the scdaemon package?  I'd rather avoid this
sort of cruft if possible.

Kevin, do you have any memory or notes of what caused you to add this
configuration option?

              --dkg
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