[pkg-gnupg-maint] Bug#1102717: gnupg: fails to interact with HSM after upgrade from 2.2.46

[Andreas Metzler]

On 2025-04-12 Andrew Bower <andrew at bower.uk> wrote:
> Hi Andreas,

> On Sat, Apr 12, 2025 at 01:43:47PM +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote:
> > On 2025-04-12 Andrew Bower <andrew at bower.uk> wrote:
> > afaiui with gnupg 2.4 you have to either use gnupg's built-in ccid driver
> > *instead* of pcdsd (i.e. stop pcscd from grabbing the device) or
> > configure gnupg to *not* use the built-in ccid driver:
> > scdaemon.1:
> >   --disable-ccid
> >          The  integrated  CCID  driver  for  CCID compliant devices can be
> >          available when libusb was detected at build time, and it is  used
> >          to  access  the  smartcard reader.  If access via PC/SC driver is
> >          needed, please configure this option to disable CCID driver  sup‐
> >          port (if any).  In GnuPG 2.2, there was a fallback mechanism from
> >          CCID  driver to PC/SC driver.  The fallback mechanism worked, be‐
> >          cause scdaemon in GnuPG 2.2 only supported a single token/reader.
> >          To support of multiple tokens/readers at the same time,  fallback
> >          mechanism was removed.
> > 
> > (This would be disable-ccid in ~/.gnupg/scdaemon.conf.)

> Thank you, this works!

Thanks for the quick response.

> I'm happy for this to be resolved as an invalid bug but would it be
> worth extending the NEWS entry to cover this issue?

yes, definitely.