From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: About the removal of pinentry.el Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2018 05:58:51 +0200 Message-ID: <838td77kec.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87efn0f3uv.fsf@petton.fr> <83efn06nh5.fsf@gnu.org> <87po6k10v7.fsf@petton.fr> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1515470240 12042 195.159.176.226 (9 Jan 2018 03:57:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2018 03:57:20 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Nicolas Petton Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jan 09 04:57:16 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1eYl2C-0002J4-OG for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 09 Jan 2018 04:57:08 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51822 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eYl4C-00021N-Bu for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 08 Jan 2018 22:59:12 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:54842) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eYl45-00020t-P6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 08 Jan 2018 22:59:06 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eYl42-0004N5-HP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 08 Jan 2018 22:59:05 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:48579) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eYl42-0004My-D9; Mon, 08 Jan 2018 22:59:02 -0500 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=4531 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1eYl41-00039u-LX; Mon, 08 Jan 2018 22:59:02 -0500 In-reply-to: <87po6k10v7.fsf@petton.fr> (message from Nicolas Petton on Mon, 08 Jan 2018 22:45:00 +0100) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:221745 Archived-At: > From: Nicolas Petton > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Mon, 08 Jan 2018 22:45:00 +0100 > > Eli Zaretskii writes: > > > Where do you see a reference to pinentry-emacs in NEWS? Or maybe I'm > > missing something obvious here. > > Isn't pinentry-emacs only working when the pinentry service has been > started with `pinentry-start' (which was defined in pinentry.el)? Once again, the NEWS entry doesn't mention pinentry-emacs at all. So I wonder what is it that I'm missing here. AFAIU, the NEWS entry just says that pinentry.el and the related features are not needed with GnuPG >= 2.1, and are not very useful with GnuPG < 2.1. That's why we removed it: its only effect was to confuse users.