[pkg-gnupg-maint] Bug#842334: Bug#842334: Needs an X display to run?

[Daniel Kahn Gillmor]

Control: tags 842334 + moreinfo unreproducible

Hi Julien--

On Fri 2016-10-28 03:47:24 -0400, Julien Puydt wrote:
> I hadn't signed a Debian package since a few days, and it's now failing 
> because I do remote work on a host without X access. The last time I 
> worked on Debian packaging there was a curses window showing up asking 
> for the password to the key.

That should still be the case.  Can you describe the situation you're in
in more detail?  I can make a signature using a curses window for
passphrase prompting.

In particular answers to any or all of the questions below would help me
understand your use case:

 * what versions of pinentry do you have installed?
 * do you have dbus-user-session installed?
 * which version of pinentry is the default pinentry?
 * is there a concurrent graphical (X11) session running for the user
   account that you're using?
 * how are you connecting to the remote host?
 * what session management governs your non-X session on the remote host?

If you've got a running dbus session (whether you have dbus-user-session
or not), and you're using pinentry-gnome3, can you try rebuilding it
with the patch i mentioned in  https://bugs.debian.org/841909  and let
me know how that works?

Regards,

        --dkg
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