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Re: About the removal of pinentry.el
From: |
Daiki Ueno |
Subject: |
Re: About the removal of pinentry.el |
Date: |
Tue, 09 Jan 2018 16:44:09 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Nicolas Petton <address@hidden> writes:
>> Once again, the NEWS entry doesn't mention pinentry-emacs at all.
>
> That's why I mentioned it here. My thought was that pinentry.el might
> have been removed while it is still a useful package.
>
>> So I wonder what is it that I'm missing here.
>
> I think that pinentry.el is still useful today for pinentry-emacs, when
> configuring gpg-agent to use it.
It still works, but I don't think it's useful today, given that
epa-pinentry-mode 'loopback exists. I would suggest the GnuPG upstream
to drop pinentry-emacs and any support for it in GnuPG itself.
Nevertheless, I admit I misremembered as if the package was added in
Emacs 26; it's was actually added in 25. So it might be safer to
restore it under obsolete, although it is also available on ELPA:
http://elpa.gnu.org/packages/pinentry.html
>> AFAIU, the NEWS entry just says that pinentry.el and the related
>> features are not needed with GnuPG >= 2.1
>
> Maybe pinentry-emacs can work without pinentry.el, and I'm not aware of
> that?
No.
Regards,
--
Daiki Ueno
- About the removal of pinentry.el, Nicolas Petton, 2018/01/08
- Re: About the removal of pinentry.el, Eli Zaretskii, 2018/01/08
- Re: About the removal of pinentry.el, Nicolas Petton, 2018/01/08
- Re: About the removal of pinentry.el, Eli Zaretskii, 2018/01/08
- Re: About the removal of pinentry.el, Nicolas Petton, 2018/01/09
- Re: About the removal of pinentry.el,
Daiki Ueno <=
- Re: About the removal of pinentry.el, Nicolas Petton, 2018/01/09
- Re: About the removal of pinentry.el, John Wiegley, 2018/01/10
- Re: About the removal of pinentry.el, Nicolas Petton, 2018/01/10
- Re: About the removal of pinentry.el, Nicolas Petton, 2018/01/10
- Re: About the removal of pinentry.el, John Wiegley, 2018/01/10
- Re: About the removal of pinentry.el, Matthew Carter, 2018/01/12
- Re: About the removal of pinentry.el, Nicolas Petton, 2018/01/16
- Re: About the removal of pinentry.el, Eli Zaretskii, 2018/01/16
- Re: About the removal of pinentry.el, Nicolas Petton, 2018/01/16
- Re: About the removal of pinentry.el, Eli Zaretskii, 2018/01/16