[pkg-gnupg-maint] Bug#854376: Bug#854376: Unable to use gpg-agent as ssh-agent

[Daniel Kahn Gillmor]

On Mon 2017-02-13 05:26:30 -0500, Punit Agrawal wrote:
> I can confirm that installing dbus-user-session and logging out and
> back in fixed the issue. I got asked for the ssh key passphrase and
> was able to log in with the key onto a remote machine. :)

great to hear!  thanks for following up, Punit.

> I think I found it a bit confusing as I went from a working setup to a
> not-working one without me doing anything other than upgrade the
> system. Not sure what an be done to ease the transition though.

Yeah, i hear you :( We could force dbus-user-session as an explicit
dependency, but that would likely be met with howls of outrage at
dependency creep.

Perhaps it's worth considering moving dbus-user-session at least from
Suggests: to Recommends: though, given that the gpg-agent's model is
really the same as the dbus-user-session model.  I'll consider that for
future updates.

       --dkg
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