[Pkg-mozext-maintainers] Bug#1023782: Bug#1023782: Add dependency on pinentry-x11

[Daniel Kahn Gillmor]

Control: affects 1023782 + src:pinentry

On Tue 2022-11-15 19:46:09 +0900, Olaf Meeuwissen wrote:
> Maybe pinentry-gui should be added as a pure virtual package?  And in
> due course, pinentry-x11 removed?  Anyway, that's not food for the
> webext-browserpass package.

yep, if someone has the space and motivation to do this work on the
pinentry package, that'd be a welcome contribution.

> Guess what!  webext-browserpass doesn't even depend on pass! :-o
> Oh, just noticed that pass (or gopass) is not actually required[1].
> Maybe that should become a Recommends: too, with a note in the package
> description why it's not a Depends: ...
>
>  [1]:  https://github.com/browserpass/browserpass-extension#requirements

urgh, i have to confess that reading the code in the browserpass-native
repo gives me a bit of heartache because of how ill-suited the gpg API
is for the work that it's doing here, but that's probably a different
issue.

        --dkg
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