From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Daiki Ueno Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#29906: 27.0.50; Emacs prompts for passwords in GUI dialog instead of minibuffer Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2017 22:06:28 +0100 Message-ID: <87tvw8udrf.fsf-ueno@gnu.org> References: <871sjdufq7.fsf@moondust.localdomain> <83a7y0fx0q.fsf@gnu.org> <87wp14ky88.fsf@moondust.localdomain> <83po6wdrgm.fsf@gnu.org> <87y3lkug8f.fsf-ueno@gnu.org> <83k1x4djja.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1514667918 3900 195.159.176.226 (30 Dec 2017 21:05:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2017 21:05:18 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cc: nljlistbox2@gmail.com, 29906@debbugs.gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Dec 30 22:05:14 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@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 1eVOJb-0000Zf-6V for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 30 Dec 2017 22:05:11 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:40087 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eVOLa-0006pX-7a for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 30 Dec 2017 16:07:14 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:36820) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eVOLT-0006p4-7E for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 30 Dec 2017 16:07:08 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eVOLO-00067I-9g for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 30 Dec 2017 16:07:07 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.43]:49486) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eVOLO-00066Y-6X for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 30 Dec 2017 16:07:02 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1eVOLN-000819-TX for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 30 Dec 2017 16:07:01 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Daiki Ueno Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2017 21:07:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 29906 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 29906-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B29906.151466800930797 (code B ref 29906); Sat, 30 Dec 2017 21:07:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 29906) by debbugs.gnu.org; 30 Dec 2017 21:06:49 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:58167 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1eVOL9-00080d-Fj for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 30 Dec 2017 16:06:49 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:45703) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1eVOL8-00080P-N7 for 29906@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 30 Dec 2017 16:06:47 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eVOKy-00054o-OV for 29906@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 30 Dec 2017 16:06:41 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:43991) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eVOKy-00054W-LH; Sat, 30 Dec 2017 16:06:36 -0500 Original-Received: from du-a.org ([219.94.251.20]:44546 helo=localhost.localdomain) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1eVOKx-00059R-Q4; Sat, 30 Dec 2017 16:06:36 -0500 In-Reply-To: <83k1x4djja.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Sat, 30 Dec 2017 22:53:45 +0200") X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 208.118.235.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:141629 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii writes: >> From: Daiki Ueno >> Cc: nljlistbox2@gmail.com (N. Jackson), 29906@debbugs.gnu.org >> Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2017 21:13:04 +0100 >> >> >> > ** The pinentry.el library has been removed. >> >> > That package (and the corresponding change in GnuPG and pinentry) >> >> > was intended to provide a way to input passphrase through Emacs with >> >> > GnuPG 2.0. However, the change to support that was only implemented >> >> > in GnuPG >= 2.1 and didn't get backported to GnuPG 2.0. And with >> >> > GnuPG 2.1 and later, pinentry.el is not needed at all. So the >> >> > library was useless, and we removed it. GnuPG 2.0 is no longer >> >> > supported by the upstream project. >> >> > >> >> > To adapt to the change, you may need to set 'epa-pinentry-mode' to the >> >> > symbol 'loopback'. >> >> I wasn't aware of this entry. Would it really make sense, given that >> pinentry.el was a new library introduced in Emacs 26? > > ??? I see pinentry.el in all versions of Emacs starting from 25.1. Oops, you are right (forgot about it). Then, perhaps it might be safer to move it to obsolete, but I presume the impact of the removal is not that big. > Would you advise saying something along these lines in NEWS? Sure. Regards, -- Daiki Ueno