[pkg-x2go-devel] Bug#768425: Bug#768425: pinentry-x2go: should provide virtual package pinentry (and maybe pinentry-x11 too)

[Jonas Smedegaard]

Quoting Mike Gabriel (2014-11-07 23:20:06)
> On  Fr 07 Nov 2014 11:50:46 CET, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
>
>> Package: pinentry-x2go
>> Version: 0.7.5.7-1
>> Severity: normal
>> Implementations of pinentry interface seem to agree on the use of
>> virtual package names pinentry pinentry-x11 and pinentr-qt, and it seems
>> this package fits one or more of those.  If so, please advertise it :-)
>
> The package pinentry-x2go is a fork of the pinentry src:package back 
> in Debian sarge or etch. It has been maintained in parallel and 
> provides pinentry functionally to X2Go Client.
>
> It probably is not usable in any other context.

I fail to understand your logic.

Yes, this is specific to a context.  Just as pinentry-qt4 is specific to 
a context and pinentry-curses is specific to a context.

If I wanted to install a Debian system solely usable in an x2go context, 
I am currently forced to pull in either of GTK+ or Qt or ncurses 
libraries as well, because gnupg-agent (correctly!) depends on pinentry 
and pinentry-x2go (incorrectly!) does not provide that virtual package.

I believe that declaring virtual package is wrong only if common 
pinentry ABI is not supported.  Seems you confuse that with whether 
other interfaces (specifically the UI interface) is usable only within 
its own scope.

 - Jonas

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