MIR for pinentry-qt - S/MIME by default for Gutsy
Scott Kitterman
ubuntu at kitterman.com
Thu Jun 21 20:38:14 BST 2007
One of the goals for the KDE plan for Gutsy:
https://wiki.kubuntu.org/KubuntuGutsyPlan
is S/MIME support by default in the 3.5 packages. This will require an MIR
for pinentry-qt. Since the MIR process says, "Hold any necessary discussion
on ubuntu-devel", I'm guessing hte necessary discussion on ubuntu-devel is to
discuss it here...
I've looked into it a bit and I think pinentry-qt meets all the requirements.
It's only had two CVEs ever and those were for distribution specific problems
in other distros.
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvekey.cgi?keyword=pinentry
It's been in the repositories since Warty and has a very good bug history (one
ever reported and I couldn't reproduce it).
In short, I think there's a viable rationale for including it and it meets the
requirements, but thought I ought to put this out before I added it to the
MIR queue.
Scott K
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