Miles Bader wrote: > ??? I never got any email responses to this! It's hard to control where all the emails go. If you want results, you should check your bugs at least once in a while.
> Closing the bug seems clearly inappropriate. I read the thread on > the bugs.debian.org, and while the responses from the developers are > unhelpfully dismissive (basically along the lines of "I don't care > because I don't use dumb terminals"), nonetheless, it's still > obviously a bug. The developers explained that: 1. You need to set a valid, supported terminal to use pinentry. Terminal type management is a pain, but this is the fault of the operating system. Making sure the terminal type is right is not a prohibite requirement in my mind. 2. Since pinentry is intended to react "asynchronously" to passphrase requests, it cannot support a mode that writes onto the terminal inline. It was pointed out that not using the agent would be better if you wanted to control gpg's screen output more closely. I might add that one could write a no-curses pinentry variant oneself with relative ease. Above all, note that the package is called "pinentry-curses". If you want "pinentry-plaintext", you might have a valid request, but you have come to the wrong place. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
