Bug 1215779 - Using enigmail with gpg-agent depends on pinentry-qt or pinentry-gtk
Summary: Using enigmail with gpg-agent depends on pinentry-qt or pinentry-gtk
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: thunderbird-enigmail
Version: 21
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Linux
unspecified
high
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Remi Collet
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2015-04-27 17:15 UTC by sanchez
Modified: 2015-05-08 07:26 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

Fixed In Version: thunderbird-enigmail-1.8.2-2.fc22
Clone Of:
Environment:
Last Closed: 2015-05-08 07:26:35 UTC
Type: Bug
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Description sanchez 2015-04-27 17:15:23 UTC
Description of problem:
As documented on the enigmail website[1], enigmail depends on a gui version of pinentry if used with gpg-agent otherwise it cannot access the keys to encrypt/sign/decrypt mails. This dependency should thus be exposed explicitly so that yum can install the corresponding packages or at least check, whether this dependency is met and advise the user. 

I am aware, that different setups exist (e.g using gnome keyring etc) and it may be hard to find a solution which works properly with all setups. However these sort of hidden dependency lead to broken and unusable software, which is very frustrating.

This is similar to bug 1215188[2].

[1]https://www.enigmail.net/support/gnupg2_issues.php
[2]https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1215188

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
at least >= 1.7.*

Comment 1 Remi Collet 2015-04-28 08:42:41 UTC
I will add a requires: "pinentry-gui" in next build
(f22 only, will be pulled in other branches later)

Comment 2 Fedora Update System 2015-04-28 09:01:56 UTC
thunderbird-enigmail-1.8.2-2.fc22 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 22.
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/thunderbird-enigmail-1.8.2-2.fc22

Comment 3 Fedora Update System 2015-04-29 13:00:29 UTC
Package thunderbird-enigmail-1.8.2-2.fc22:
* should fix your issue,
* was pushed to the Fedora 22 testing repository,
* should be available at your local mirror within two days.
Update it with:
# su -c 'yum update --enablerepo=updates-testing thunderbird-enigmail-1.8.2-2.fc22'
as soon as you are able to.
Please go to the following url:
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2015-7102/thunderbird-enigmail-1.8.2-2.fc22
then log in and leave karma (feedback).

Comment 4 Fedora Update System 2015-05-08 07:26:35 UTC
thunderbird-enigmail-1.8.2-2.fc22 has been pushed to the Fedora 22 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.


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