regardless of alternatives that are available:
- Current gnupg Versions rely on gpg-agent,
- gpg-agent should be started as a daemon or otherwise it does not need to be
installed at all.
- The configuration option that debian relies on is deprecated.
- A user of Kleopatra for example without
We run into this issue again. Version Debian/Squeeze 2.0.14.
The option use-agent is deprecated in the conf, so why should a user has it in
his gpg-conf. See manual page of gpg2:
--use-agent
--no-use-agent
This is dummy option. gpg2 always requires the agent.
So the
I think that searching the GnuPG options file is wrong. Could the script
instead look for use-gpg-agent in /etc/X11/Xsession instead? This is the
same mechanism that the SSH agent uses to determine if it should start up
when X is started.
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Package: gnupg-agent
Version: 2.0.2
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The gpg-agent package installs /etc/X11/Xsession.d/90gpg-agent to
automatically start the agent in X sessions. The script tries to
determine whether the agent is needed by looking for the use-agent
option in some gnugp configuration files.
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