On Mon 2018-11-12 17:02:40 +0100, Elmar Stellnberger wrote: > Now I have removed pcscd with apt-get remove and see it works now on my > Debian 9 machine.
glad to hear that it's working reliably now! I'm closing this bug report since it sounds like it's resolved, but feel free to re-open it if you think it needs more resolution! > Strangely on my Debian 8 machine pcscd is of version 1.8.13-1 while no > scdaemon is installed. Nonetheless I remember gpg --card-status always > having worked on my Debian 8 machine. debian 8 shipped the "classic" GnuPG 1.4 branch, which did not have a separate scdaemon. debian 9 ships the "modern" GnuPG 2.1.x/2.2.x branch, which does use scdaemon. --dkg