tags 642021 + upstream forward 642021 http://news.gmane.org/find-root.php?message_id=1316457193-26043-1-git-send-email-luca%40pca.it affects 642021 + openssh-client thanks
Hi there! On Sun, 18 Sep 2011 18:46:06 +0200, Luca Capello wrote: > Package: gnupg-agent > Version: 2.0.18-1 > Severity: important > File: /etc/X11/Xsession.d/90gpg-agent > Tags: patch > Affect: openssh-client The BTS does not accept this pseudo-header, fixed now. > 1) I fully understand the need for a -$(hostname) suffix for the "PID" > file (see #312717), but I would add a note in a README.Debian file, > something like: Upstream seems to want to completely remove the need for a PID file, but I have not checked how gpg-agent behaves when --write-env-file is not specified: <http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=412993#20> > 3) the gpg-agent manpage contains the following statement: [...] > OTOH I see why it is needed in line 16, which is a bug in gpg-agent > itself: the PID file is not deleted once the gpg-agent exits, which > means that the same PID file is present at the next login. After having experienced problems with upstream mailing lists, I sent upstream a patch to remove the PID file when exiting (forward added): <http://news.gmane.org/find-root.php?message_id=1316457193-26043-1-git-send-email-luca%40pca.it> <http://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-devel/2011-September/026237.html> Since one week I am testing the above patch on an up-to-date Debian sid with the following package: <http://people.debian.org/~gismo/tmp/gnupg-agent_2.0.18-2~gismo642021.1_amd64.deb> > As explained in the gpg-agent manpage, at least GPG_AGENT_INFO and > SSH_AUTH_SOCK should be exported. However, given that when started > "normally" gpg-agent export all of the three variables, I do not > understand why the gpg-agent manpage suggests to export only the two > above. The patch is easy: This still applies. Thx, bye, Gismo / Luca
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