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26.0.50; Insufficient documentation for pinentry.el

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From: Daiki Ueno <ueno <at> gnu.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 27445 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#27445: 26.0.50; Insufficient documentation for pinentry.el
Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2017 20:59:19 +0100

Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:

> I don't think we can claim that it's undocumented: it has some user
> documentation in the Commentary section.
>
> My take from this discussion is that this package will become
> obsolete, but not exactly tomorrow.

Not tomorrow, but it will be just a month later.  Also note that this is
a relatively new package and no Emacs release has shipped with it.

> So I think it would be good to add some minimal verbiage to allow
> those who still need pinentry.el to use it.  I gather the required
> additions are not too large.

Sorry, I have no idea what to add to the existing documentation (the
Commentary section), really.  As I indicated in the previous post, if
pinentry.el doesn't work, it is likely to be failing in somewhere else
than Emacs (e.g. Debian packaging of GnuPG and pinentry).  It's not
obvious to me what we should suggest to the user in that case.

Regards,
-- 
Daiki Ueno

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