Control: tags 750521 + upstream
Control: forwarded 750521 https://bugs.g10code.com/gnupg/issue1777

Hi Rolf--

On 12/02/2014 12:26 PM, Rolf Leggewie wrote:
> Control: reassign -1 pinentry-gtk2
> 
> On 03.12.2014 01:14, Rolf Leggewie wrote:
>>> yep, i think this report is specifically about something broken in the
>>>> interaction between pinentry-gtk2 and scim.
>> Yep, and it turns out to be a VERY old problem indeed (still reading up
>> on it).  It's from at least 2007 or most likely even 2006!
>>
>> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.encryption.gpg.devel/14423
>> https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=330073
>>
>> The people at Novell came to the conclusion that the problem needs to be
>> fixed in upstream pinentry-gtk-2.
> 
> After reading through the gnupg-devel mailing list over on gmane.org,
> specifically
> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.encryption.gpg.devel/14423/focus=14461 I
> am reassigning this back to the pinentry package.  That thread has some
> indication that some work was done upstream but there is also an entry
> from 2009 indicating the problem is still present and that mail never
> received a response.

Thanks for doing the background research for this and reporting it here.
 I agree with the reassignment to pinentry-gtk2, and i've forwarded the
message to the upstream bugtracker.

Regards,

        --dkg

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