[Bug 1758924] Re: gnome-keyring no longer including ssh key comment 3.27.4-2 to 3.28.0.1-1

[Sebastien Bacher]

Thank you for your bug report, in that version gnome-keyring removed its own ssh-agent implementation to use the openssh one,
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-keyring/commit/8db2b978

That's a behaviour change but not really a bug/something gnome-keyring
is going to be able to fix, rather a request for openssh to behaves
differently (as gnome-keyring's implementation was doing), reassigning
there

** Package changed: gnome-keyring (Ubuntu) => openssh (Ubuntu)

** Summary changed:

- gnome-keyring no longer including ssh key comment 3.27.4-2 to 3.28.0.1-1
+ 'ssh-add -l' doesn't like the key email/comment (unlike gnome-keyring's agent used to)

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Title:
  'ssh-add -l' doesn't like the key email/comment (unlike gnome-
  keyring's agent used to)

Status in openssh package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Updated today, it moved from

  2018-03-26 08:11:25 upgrade gnome-keyring:amd64 3.27.4-2ubuntu1
  3.28.0.1-1ubuntu1

  to

  2018-03-26 08:14:34 status installed gnome-keyring:amd64
  3.28.0.1-1ubuntu1


  After this, noticed that some local code that uses ssh key comments
  (from 'ssh-add -l' output) for automatic annotations is no longer
  working right.

  Previously (example from 16.04):

  nneul at skyhawk:~ $ ssh-add -l
  2048 SHA256:...... nneul at neulinger.org (RSA)

  Now (from current 18):

  nneul at infinity:~ $ ssh-add -l
  2048 SHA256:...... /users/nneul/.ssh/id_rsa (RSA)

  
  This is a negative change from my perspective as we are making use of that comment for automatic annotations (not security sensitive) and things like automatically populating git identity when managing a shared application development/server accounts.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
  Package: gnome-keyring 3.28.0.1-1ubuntu1
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.13.0-17.20-generic 4.13.8
  Uname: Linux 4.13.0-17-generic x86_64
  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia_modeset nvidia
  ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu1
  Architecture: amd64
  CurrentDesktop: XFCE
  Date: Mon Mar 26 08:51:30 2018
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2015-11-09 (867 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-Server 15.10 "Wily Werewolf" - Release amd64 (20151021)
  SourcePackage: gnome-keyring
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to bionic on 2017-12-05 (110 days ago)

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