[Bug 42086] Re: gpg-agent has wrong dependency to pinentry-ncurses

[Stefan Hinker]

Stephan,

I agree - gnupg-agent does work as shipped with dapper.
However, you need a valid configuration file in ~/.gnupg
Of course, this is a no brainer...  but if there is *no* config file, it fails to work.  At least, it failed for me *before* I started looking around for newer versions.  The problem was the non-existing socket file.  Fixed using the right entry in the config file.

As for what doesn't work: gpgsm fails to import PKCS12 keys.  This is true for all versions prior to 1.9.20-1, as documented in bug #19333.
This has nothing to do with gnupg-agent or kmail, it's just the S/MIME support that doesn't work.

Here's the list of packages that I installed to get S/MIME support working (iirc):
gpgsm   1.9.20-1
gnupg2  1.9.20-1
libksba8        0.9.13-1
kdepim  4:3.5.2-0ubuntu6
kmail   4:3.5.2-0ubuntu6
gnupg-agent     1.9.20-1

For me, having S/MIME support in the mailer is essential.  It works more
or less in Kmail - depending on how little "less" really is, I'll have
to switch to thunderbird eventually.  If Kmail will support these
features without using the gnupg-agent and the rest of the back end -
fine :-)  The question is - when?

Thanks!
stefan

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gpg-agent has wrong dependency to pinentry-ncurses
https://launchpad.net/bugs/42086