GNU bug report logs - #36784
GnuPG lacks a default pinentry program

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Package: guix;

Reported by: Raghav Gururajan <raghavgururajan <at> disroot.org>

Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2019 14:27:02 UTC

Severity: important

Merged with 24076, 37266

Done: Leo Famulari <leo <at> famulari.name>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #13 received at 36784 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado <at> elephly.net>
To: Raghav Gururajan <raghavgururajan <at> disroot.org>
Cc: 36784 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#36784: Cannot generate key pair with GnuPG
Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2019 15:01:59 +0200

Raghav Gururajan <raghavgururajan <at> disroot.org> writes:

> I still suggest that there should be a default/fallback option for
> this. After reviewing guix repository, I found pinentry, emacs-
> pinentry, pinentry-tty, pinentry-qt, pinentry-gtk2, pinentry-gnome3,
> pinentry-emacs and pinentry-efl, as available pinentry programs.
>
> Out of all, I suggest pinentry to be set as default/fallback option for
> gnupg in guix, as it is platform-independent and provides both CUI
> (console) and GUI.

I think it would be good to have a sensible default.  Is there a good
reason not to include pinentry-tty or somemthing similarly small?

-- 
Ricardo
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