On 2025-03-05 15:07:42 -0500, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: > On Sun 2023-10-29 00:20:09 +0200, in https://bugs.debian.org/1054985, Vincent > Lefevre wrote: > > > gpg-agent needs a working pinentry program. As pinentry-gnome3 > > (installed by default) doesn't work on non-GNOME environments, it > > should depend on pinentry-curses or pinentry-gtk2. > > I'm confused by this report. It looks to me like gpg-agent has depended > on "pinentry-curses | pinentry" for years, well before this report was opened: > > ``` > 0 dkg@bob:~$ apt-cache show gpg-agent | grep ^Depends: > Depends: gpgconf (= 2.4.7-6), pinentry-curses | pinentry, init-system-helpers > (>= 1.52), libassuan9 (>= 2.5.1), libc6 (>= 2.38), libgcrypt20 (>= 1.11.0), > libgpg-error0 (>= 1.49), libnpth0t64 (>= 1.2) > Depends: gpgconf (= 2.4.7-4), pinentry-curses | pinentry, init-system-helpers > (>= 1.52), libassuan9 (>= 2.5.1), libc6 (>= 2.38), libgcrypt20 (>= 1.11.0), > libgpg-error0 (>= 1.49), libnpth0t64 (>= 1.2) > Depends: gpgconf (= 2.2.46-2), pinentry-curses | pinentry, > init-system-helpers (>= 1.52), libassuan9 (>= 2.5.1), libc6 (>= 2.38), > libgcrypt20 (>= 1.11.0), libgpg-error0 (>= 1.48), libnpth0t64 (>= 1.2) > Depends: gpgconf (= 2.2.46-1+b1), pinentry-curses | pinentry, > init-system-helpers (>= 1.52), libassuan9 (>= 2.5.1), libc6 (>= 2.38), > libgcrypt20 (>= 1.11.0), libgpg-error0 (>= 1.48), libnpth0t64 (>= 1.2) > 0 dkg@bob:~$ > ```
Hmm... Then that's probably an issue with the Debian installer, which *forces* to install GNOME software even if one deselects GNOME. Since pinentry-gnome3 was installed by default, pinentry-curses was not installed as a consequence. I did not have this issue with another machine, for which I chose to install the minimum, then X11 manually. > pinentry-gnome3 definitely offers a better user experience on most > desktop systems today, including in non-gnome environments (i'm using it > under sway on a wayland-only system). If pinentry-gnome3 isn't working > for you on your setup, maybe that's something to report against either > pinentry-gnome3 or against whatever environment you're using. This might be bug 841909 / 842015 / 842334 / 842908 / 845565 / 853066. I use remote machines everyday (sometimes with or without X11 forwarding), and pinentry-gnome3 is broken with such a setup. This bug has been open since 2016, without any progress since then! -- Vincent Lefèvre <vinc...@vinc17.net> - Web: <https://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <https://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / Pascaline project (LIP, ENS-Lyon)
