Hello:
My Linux box runs BiT 1.3.3-4, the latest version available in the repositories.
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$ apt list | grep installed | grep backintime
--- snip ---
backintime-common/stable,stable,now 1.3.3-4 all [installed]
backintime-qt/stable,stable,now 1.3.3-4 all [installed,automatic]
$
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Have used it for the longest time, saved my files more than once.
Thanks to all those involved for that.
That said, I have something to which I need some insight into:
1. I understand that BiT will use whatever available keyring it finds.
2. For reasons, it turns out that my system has more than one keyring available:
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$ apt list | grep installed | grep keyring
--- snip ---
debian-archive-keyring/stable,stable,now 2023.3+deb12u2 all [installed]
devuan-keyring/stable,stable,now 2023.05.28 all [installed]
gnome-keyring/stable,now 42.1-1+b2 amd64 [installed]
python3-keyring/stable,stable,now 23.9.3-2 all [installed,automatic]
python3-keyrings.alt/stable,stable,now 4.2.0-1 all [installed,automatic]
$
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I'm not a fan of gnome 'anything' and as a result I only have one gnome
application installed: gnome-disk-utility, which is actually quite handy.
Recently, wondering if gnome-keyring was used by gnome-disk-utility, I asked
aptitude ...
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$ aptitude why gnome-keyring
i backintime-common Depends python3-keyring
i A python3-keyring Depends python3-secretstorage (>= 3.2)
i A python3-secretstorage Recommends gnome-keyring | libkf5wallet-bin (>= 5.97)
| keepassxc
$
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... only to find out that it is (indirectly) used by backintime-common.
ie: backintime-common >depends> python3-keyring >depends> python3-secretstorage
>recommends gnome-keyring |or| libkf5wallet-bin (>= 5.97) |or| keepassxc
As libkf5wallet-bin seems to be a transitional package which can be removed (if
it were installed), the only options for BiT would be gnome-keyring or
keepassxc.
But it happens that if I purge gnome-keyring, BiT won't work and keepassxs is
not installed.
Q1: why are gnome-keyring and keepassxc 'recommended' packages and not
dependencies? Just asking, seems odd.
Q2: how could I safely (and not breaking anything) switch from gnome-keyring to
keepassxc? The less gnome I have, the better.
Thanks in advance.
Best,
JHM
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