[pkg-gnupg-maint] Bug#1058571: Bug#1058571: Bug#1058571: gnupg2: please enable TPM2 support

[Daniel Kahn Gillmor]

On Sun 2025-01-12 16:48:19 +0000, Jonathan McDowell wrote:
> It would be nice to have the TPM support in Trixie. Enabling it isn't
> hard, I've put up a simple patch at:
>
> https://salsa.debian.org/noodles/gnupg2/-/tree/enable-tpm

Thanks for this, Jonathan.  I think we should try to merge this patch,
or at least a slight variant of it.

> The problem is that the testsuite no longer runs in parallel mode with
> the TPM support enabled; the SW TPM emulator used for the tests is
> configured to use TCP ports and so can't parallelise.

Ugh, disappointing.  The GnuPG test suite is already incredibly slow,
which makes working on the package pretty time-consuming.

> It should be possible to use Unix sockets instead, but AFAICT that's
> going to require patching tpm2d/intel-tss.h to set the appropriate
> parameters on TCTI setup, and hacking up the Scheme test files to pass
> those through to the tests.

I've reported this over on https://dev.gnupg.org/T7494

     --dkg
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