[pkg-gnupg-maint] Bug#568375: Bug#568375: Bug#568375: gnupg-agent: does not work with `git tag -s`

[Daniel Kahn Gillmor]

On Wed 2017-02-15 05:24:34 -0500, Werner Koch wrote:
> On Tue, 14 Feb 2017 00:55, dkg at fifthhorseman.net said:
>
>>  * gpg 1.4 expects to connect directly to the active smartcard.  2.1
>>    expects access to the smartcard to be mediated by the scdaemon
>>    process.  I don't know what happens if both of these systems try to
>>    access a single smartcard concurrently, but i imagine it's not
>
> If gpg 1.4 can access the card via agent+scdaemon it uses these daemons
> to access the card.  Thus many things should work.
>
> If 1.4 can't do that it uses an old copy of the code used by scdaemon to
> access the card.  That code is old and thus a lot of things won't work.
>
> I can't suggest to use 1.4 with smardcards.

should we adjust the build of 1.4 in debian to patch out the direct
access of smartcards?  if we use --disable-card-support during
./configure will that disable use of the agent for smartcards as well,
or will it just remove the direct access?

       --dkg
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