[pkg-gnupg-maint] Bug#577737: [pinentry-qt4] Re: gpg command won't use agent if the agent is configured to use pinentry-qt4

[OmegaPhil]

On 14/10/16 00:28, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:
> On Thu 2016-10-13 14:09:16 -0400, OmegaPhil wrote:
>> Enigmail is v1.9.5 via Get Addons (rather than the Debian package).
>>
>> I started playing with dirmngr.conf but then I realised you meant
>> gpg-agent.conf ;).
> 
> thanks, yes, you are correct :)
> 
>> As soon as I did a killall to have gpg-agent load the new
>> configuration and try again, it worked - I know that gpg2 stuff has
>> updated recently, and my uptime is ~11d, so perhaps the update scripts
>> don't kill off gpg-agent when theres some incompatible change?
> 
> That's right, the package upgrade scripts make no attempt to restart
> long-running user processes, for reasons i suspect you can imagine :)
> 
> Can you review /var/log/dpkg.log to see what versions of gpg-agent you
> might have been running initially?  I'm glad it's working for you now,
> anyway, though i'm still in the dark as to why it wasn't working for you
> before.
> 
>      --dkg


Latest mentions of gnupg-agent:

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/var/log/dpkg.log:2016-10-02 08:11:27 upgrade gnupg-agent:amd64 2.1.11-7
2.1.15-3
/var/log/dpkg.log:2016-10-02 08:11:27 status half-configured
gnupg-agent:amd64 2.1.11-7
/var/log/dpkg.log:2016-10-02 08:11:27 status unpacked gnupg-agent:amd64
2.1.11-7
/var/log/dpkg.log:2016-10-02 08:11:27 status half-installed
gnupg-agent:amd64 2.1.11-7
/var/log/dpkg.log:2016-10-02 08:11:27 status half-installed
gnupg-agent:amd64 2.1.11-7
/var/log/dpkg.log:2016-10-02 08:11:27 status unpacked gnupg-agent:amd64
2.1.15-3
/var/log/dpkg.log:2016-10-02 08:11:27 status unpacked gnupg-agent:amd64
2.1.15-3
/var/log/dpkg.log:2016-10-02 08:12:41 configure gnupg-agent:amd64
2.1.15-3 <none>
/var/log/dpkg.log:2016-10-02 08:12:41 status unpacked gnupg-agent:amd64
2.1.15-3
/var/log/dpkg.log:2016-10-02 08:12:41 status unpacked gnupg-agent:amd64
2.1.15-3
/var/log/dpkg.log:2016-10-02 08:12:41 status half-configured
gnupg-agent:amd64 2.1.15-3
/var/log/dpkg.log:2016-10-02 08:12:41 status installed gnupg-agent:amd64
2.1.15-3

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2.1.11-7 is mentioned as an upgrade on 25.04.16.

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