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#27445: 26.0.50; Insufficient documentation for pinentry.el Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2017 13:15:13 +0100 Message-ID: References: <87vano7ihu.fsf@drachen> <878tfy15lw.fsf@web.de> <83vaiz63f3.fsf@gnu.org> <83zi7jgbka.fsf@gnu.org> <87h8tqg30t.fsf-ueno@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1511266575 17708 195.159.176.226 (21 Nov 2017 12:16:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2017 12:16:15 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cc: 27445@debbugs.gnu.org To: Andy Moreton Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Nov 21 13:16:10 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 1eH7TB-00042Q-Ov for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 21 Nov 2017 13:16:05 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:34000 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eH7TI-000106-WF for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 21 Nov 2017 07:16:13 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:35394) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eH7TB-0000zw-7T for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 21 Nov 2017 07:16:06 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eH7T7-0004Pg-TS for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 21 Nov 2017 07:16:05 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.43]:41302) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eH7T7-0004Pa-Q6 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 21 Nov 2017 07:16:01 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1eH7T7-0004tk-Hk for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 21 Nov 2017 07:16:01 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Daiki Ueno Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2017 12:16:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 27445 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 27445-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B27445.151126653318794 (code B ref 27445); Tue, 21 Nov 2017 12:16:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 27445) by debbugs.gnu.org; 21 Nov 2017 12:15:33 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:49983 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1eH7Sf-0004t3-LK for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 21 Nov 2017 07:15:33 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:44307) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1eH7Sd-0004sr-CY for 27445@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 21 Nov 2017 07:15:31 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eH7SU-0004F0-SU for 27445@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 21 Nov 2017 07:15:26 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:35970) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eH7SU-0004EW-NS; Tue, 21 Nov 2017 07:15:22 -0500 Original-Received: from du-a.org ([219.94.251.20]:40928 helo=localhost.localdomain) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1eH7ST-00076L-O7; Tue, 21 Nov 2017 07:15:22 -0500 In-Reply-To: (Andy Moreton's message of "Mon, 20 Nov 2017 17:55:20 +0000") 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:140194 Archived-At: Andy Moreton writes: > How on earth is a user meant to diagnose a non-working setup without > adequate documentation ? Why on earth the user could even notice the intentionally undocumented package, then? >> Fortunately, GnuPG 2.0 will be unsupported in the next month. After >> that we should be able to obsolete or remove the package. > > Just because upstream remove support for something does not mean that > all downstream distros or users systems are fully up to date. > > While it is sensible to encourage users to use the latest package > version and to install security fixes, there will be many people with > systems using older package versions for some time. Those users will > need documentation to guide them. That's the task of the distros which provide extended life support for GnuPG 2.0, not of the Emacs upstream. Given that both Emacs and GnuPG are part of the GNU project, they should be in sync in upstream.