[pkg-gnupg-maint] Bug#851440: Bug#851440: sign_and_send_pubkey: signing failed: agent refused operation

Daniel Kahn Gillmor dkg at fifthhorseman.net
Tue Jan 24 02:40:26 UTC 2017


Version: 2.1.17-6

On Thu 2017-01-19 13:36:20 -0500, Dominik George wrote:
>> > Do you have the dbus-user-session package installed?
>> 
>> No, I have dbus-x11.
>
> Installing dbus-user-session actually fixes it.
>
> I leave it up to you to decide whether this is a bug or using the ssh
> feature is not a standard use of the package.
>
> Maybe you shiould at least Recommend dbus-user-session.

I've put dbus-user-session into the Suggests: for gnupg-agent, and
included some more extensive documentation in
/usr/share/doc/gnupg-agent/README.Debian as well.  So i think we can
close https://bugs.debian.org/851440

Thanks for the feedback, Dominik!

       --dkg
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