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26.0.50; Insufficient documentation for pinentry.el

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Message #26 received at 27445 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Daiki Ueno <ueno <at> gnu.org>
To: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen <at> web.de>
Cc: 27445 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Subject: Re: bug#27445: 26.0.50; Insufficient documentation for pinentry.el
Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2017 07:19:06 +0100

Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen <at> web.de> writes:

> I don't fully understand the backgrounds.  Does what you say mean that
> the problem will go away very soon (even on Debian) from alone?

As I said in the previous post:

> Fortunately, GnuPG 2.0 will be unsupported in the next month.  After
> that we should be able to obsolete or remove the package.

As long as we support only GnuPG >= 2.1 and GnuPG 1.x, there is a way to
intercept passphrase prompt.  In that case, there will be no need to use
a kludge like pinentry.el (+ emacs support in GnuPG/pinentry).

Regards,
-- 
Daiki Ueno

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