Bug#506631: gpg-agent problems in enigmail

2008-12-01 Thread Jack Dodds
Thank you Alexander. It will take me a couple of evenings to remember how to build Debian packages before I can try this but I definitely will do it as soon as I can. Jack Dodds Alexander Sack wrote: > On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 04:30:00PM -0500, Jack Dodds wrote: > >> the GPG_AGENT_INFO vari

Bug#506631: gpg-agent problems in enigmail

2008-12-01 Thread Alexander Sack
On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 04:30:00PM -0500, Jack Dodds wrote: > the GPG_AGENT_INFO variable. In that situation, Enigmail requests the > passphrase directly. i.e. Enigmail falls back to a direct passphrase > request if it can't find GPG_AGENT_INFO, but it does not fall back if it > gets a name for t

Bug#506631: gpg-agent problems in enigmail

2008-11-30 Thread Jack Dodds
If Enigmail consistently fell back to a direct passphrase request in all situations where it can't find gpg-agent, that would make Enigmail usable in all situations with no corrective action by the user, which would be even better than fixing the tickbox. --=20 =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D

Bug#506631: gpg-agent problems in enigmail

2008-11-30 Thread Alexander Sack
On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 05:12:55PM +, Matthew Johnson wrote: > I'd be interested in knowing what caused that line to be added to > gpg.conf, since I've only ever seen gpg-agent used with environment > variables. > > I think the bug here is the non-functioning 'use gpg-agent' tickbox, > which i

Bug#506631: gpg-agent problems in enigmail

2008-11-30 Thread Matthew Johnson
On Sun Nov 30 17:12, Matthew Johnson wrote: > I'd be interested in knowing what caused that line to be added to > gpg.conf, since I've only ever seen gpg-agent used with environment > variables. > > If a package automatically updates gpg.conf and then leaves it in a > non-functioning state, that's

Bug#506631: gpg-agent problems in enigmail

2008-11-30 Thread Matthew Johnson
I'd be interested in knowing what caused that line to be added to gpg.conf, since I've only ever seen gpg-agent used with environment variables. I think the bug here is the non-functioning 'use gpg-agent' tickbox, which is not RC. If a package automatically updates gpg.conf and then leaves it in