[Pkg-owncloud-maintainers] Bug#900556: owncloud-client: Won't store passwords reporting failed to execute program org.kde.kwalletd

[Olivier Berger]

On Fri, Jun 01, 2018 at 10:58:41AM +0200, Olivier Berger wrote:
> 
> Hi.
> 
> owncloud-client currently won't store passwords on my XFCE desktop on
> testing, displaying :
> "could not open wallet: other; failed to execute program org.kde.kwalletd: no such file or firectory"
> 
> Upstream seem to suggest in
> https://github.com/owncloud/client/issues/6455 that it depends on
> libgnome-keyring0 to do so, but this in turn was removed from testing.
> 
> I fear the dependency was missing, but there's in the end a
> release-critical issue here : as per
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=892359 a dependency on
> libgnome-keyring is problematic and needs some rewrite upstream.
> 
> I'd welcome the maintainers opinion on this.
> 
> In the meantime, installing libgnome-keyring0 from unstable solves the
> issue.
> 

It looks like a workaround may lie in the way qtkeychain is built, so
that it can use libsecret, as advised in https://github.com/owncloud/client/issues/6455#issuecomment-396895579

Hope this helps,
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Olivier BERGER 
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