Subject: bug#24229: 25.1; Can't set EPA program

From: Richard Stallman <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2016 13:45:19 -0400

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  > That is primarily because of the UX differences between three maintained
  > versions of GnuPG: 2.0, 2.1, and 1.x.  GnuPG 2.0 does not provide a way
  > to prompt passphrase without GUI, but others do.  Some people are fine
  > with 2.0 as they use Emacs on a graphical environment only, but other
  > people are not.

This might be a symptom of a deeper problem.

Suppose you use GnuPG 2.0 under Emacs on a text terminal.
What interface does it use to read the passphrase?
Does it work ok?

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