Bug#760102: gnome-keyring: Breaks gpg-agent with no UI to disable

[Sjoerd Simons]

On Sun, 2014-08-31 at 19:47 +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
> Package: gnome-keyring
> Version: 3.12.2-1
> Severity: important
> 
> Since a recent upgrade (sorry, not 100% clear when this happened but I
> do update fairly frequently) gnome-keyring has started providing a GnuPG
> agent.  This is breaking my usage of my system as gnome-keyring does not
> appear to support GnuPG smartcards as gpg-agent does and my day to day
> work is heavily dependent on being able to use one.  For example signing
> e-mail causes this:
> 
> | gpg: WARNING: The GNOME keyring manager hijacked the GnuPG agent.
> | gpg: WARNING: GnuPG will not work properly - please configure that tool to not interfere with the GnuPG system!
> | gpg: selecting openpgp failed: Unsupported certificate
> | gpg: signing failed: Unsupported certificate
> | gpg: signing failed: Unsupported certificate
> 
> which is a serious issue; I also use my smartcard as a SSH key and this
> usage is also broken.  There used to be a UI to edit the startup
> applications but this seems to have been removed.

gnome-session-properties is indeed gone. You can still configure this by
hand by removing the relevant startup application
from /etc/xdg/autostart. See /usr/share/doc/gnome-keyring/README.Debian
for more information.

-- 
Sjoerd Simons <sjoerd at luon.net>