Well, I add some more information for your understanding. On 2014-04-18 at 10:35 +0200, Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos wrote: > As I said feel free to reassign the issue to gnome-keyring, but it > _is_ an issue.
For a while, I won't reassign this bug to gnome-keyring (of Debian BTS). That's because I think that it will be better for some users of scute who will encounter this issue (again). > > The feature of gpg-agent by GNOME keyring is small subset of standard > > gpg-agent. For some users, it would be OK to use this emulation, but > > for full feature of GnuPG, it is not recommended in general, and it > > doesn't work well with scute (or other cases with smartcard, etc.). > > If it is not recommended in general, then a bug should have been filed > to gnome-keyring, to not duplicate gpg-agent. I don't see any such > bug. You mean, bug reports in Debian BTS? I occasionally saw this kind of bug reports in gnupg-users. FWIW, it has already been shared among GnuPG developers and GNOME Keyring developers. You see, this problem is not only for scute. Well, I don't say not to duplicate gpg-agent. For some users, it's OK to use the emulation of gpg-agent by GNOME Keyring, and it would be useful. I'm saying that the emulation of gpg-agent is not recommended in general, _if_ user wants full feature of GnuPG. I'm sorry that there is not enough information about this in Scute's documentation. It would be good if GNOME keyring manual addresses this kind of explanation about gpg-agent emulation, and users could find a kind of how-to in its trouble shooting guide. > I just don't find acceptable that scute not working by _default_ when > gnome is in use. There is no warning being print, nor the README files > mention anything about it. OK. I understand your point. Scute is very experimental software, and it is not well maintained these days in upstream. There is not enough documentation and it's not very stable. I have tried my best to package it for Debian, so that it could be useful for some advanced users who want to experiment with that. I did that, and I am maintaining in Debian, because it was difficult for some GnuPG users to build Scute from its original source. -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
