Package: pinentry Version: 0.7.2-3 Severity: normal
I often want to use gtk, and thus pinentry, in an Emacs shell buffer or the like where a "graphical" curses-based dialog like pinentry-curses doesn't work; in some cases I do this when logged in remotely via ssh, so pinentry-gtk doesn't work either. In such a case, pinentry-curses either displays gibberish (if TERM is set, but not to something useful, e.g. to "emacs"), or simply fails (if TERM is not set). Pinentry or pinentry-curses should really have a fallback mode that simply turns off echoing and reads from the tty, just like gpg does when gpg-agent isn't used. [To tell the truth, I dislike the heavyweight and intrusive pinentry-curses dialog -- it obscures the terminal output which usually tells me exactly why gpg is being run! -- and I'd really like to be able to specify something like "--no-curses" and have it immediately fallback to dumb-terminal mode when no gtk dialog is possible.] Thanks, -Miles -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.13.2 Locale: LANG=ja_JP.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=ja_JP.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Versions of packages pinentry-curses depends on: ii libc6 2.3.5-12.1 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libncurses5 5.5-1 Shared libraries for terminal hand pinentry-curses recommends no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
