[Pkg-kde-talk] Request for PGP/MIME support w/o gpg-agent

[Adeodato Simó]

* Christopher Martin [Tue, 25 Jan 2005 11:29:48 -0500]:

> On #debian-qt-kde the idea of adding our voice to those requesting full 
> support for OpenPGP/MIME in KMail without gpg-agent was raised. I've 
> written a basic draft of what such a post to KDE Bug #92619 might look 
> like. For more background, see 
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-release/2005/01/msg00152.html.

  Thanks for writing the note.

> ---
> Debian is another distribution that will not be shipping GnuPG 1.9.x in 
> our upcoming release, and as such does not have gpg-agent available. Our 
> users thus lack full PGP support in KMail, without resorting to 3rd-party 
> packages.

> For this reason, we would welcome a patch, usable with the 3.3 branch as 
> well as HEAD, and ideally official but unofficial if necessary, that 
> would allow KMail to decrypt OpenPGP/MIME messages even if gpg-agent is 
> absent. Perhaps Gregorio Guidi's patch can serve as a starting point.

> [Name(s), Debian/KDE Maintainers, something else...]
> ---

  Yeah: name1, name2, ..., Debian KDE Maintainers.

> It might be nice to post this using the official Debian/KDE account. It 
> would look more impressive, anyway.

  Yup.

> Comments?

  Seems ready to be sent.


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