[Pkg-mutt-maintainers] Bug#828751: using mutt with gpg2 results in two password prompts

[Antonio Radici]

tag 828751 +pending
thanks

On Mon, Jun 27, 2016 at 03:33:46PM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
> Package: mutt
> Version: 1.6.0-1
> Severity: normal
> 
> Hi,
> 
> When mutt wants to call gpg to sign or decrypt a message (both of which
> require the passphrase for the key), then mutt will issue a password
> prompt. With gnupg 1.4, this password is passed on to gnupg, and the
> decryption succeeds.
> 
> With the gnupg package from experimental installed, the passphrase from
> mutt is ignored by gnupg, and it shows its own pin dialog instead, where
> I have to enter my passphrase a second time.

Hi Wouter,
we are planning to fix this in the next release, Faidon has some ideas on how we
could do it. I'll tag this as pending, as a fix is coming soon.