* Steven Chamberlain (ste...@pyro.eu.org) wrote: > On 14/10/14 20:18, Eric Dorland wrote: > > Thanks for the report. We're working on this, > > Okay thanks, although I notice you filed a bug only against "gnome": > > * Why only gnome? If it is important to have a gtk2 dialog then > shouldn't other desktops have it too? > > * Since this bug affects tasksel, why not also address it in tasksel, > such as in task-desktop?
Yes good point, let me fix that. I suppose it should be: task-gnome-desktop, task-xfce-desktop, task-lxde-desktop: recommend pinentry-gtk2 task-kde-desktop: recommend pinentry-qt4 > * Why only severity 'wishlist' if it is blocking a bug of IMHO higher > severity? From the perspective of tasksel, it's a feature request IMHO. > > but I'm not sure I > > understand the justification to make this a serious bug. Could you > > elaborate? > > OK, I've looked and could not find a reference to this in policy. But I > felt it was common sense, and policy shouldn't need to exist for such > things: > > A minimal no-desktop install should not include ~70 additional packages > with ~30MB download size and taking ~100MB space, if they add no extra > functionality for that use case. I agree, it's a bug. I'm just not sure we should hold up the release. > (Also curious, what will gnupg2 do if > only pinentry-gtk2 is installed but no desktop is running?) pinentry-gtk2 will fallback to curses if there's no DISPLAY. > I'm not saying it's gnupg-agent's fault this situation occurred, but it > is IMHO a serious enough problem affecting d-i/tasksel, to need to fix > it before release? But other than bringing in too many packages, does it break anything else? -- Eric Dorland <e...@kuroneko.ca> 43CF 1228 F726 FD5B 474C E962 C256 FBD5 0022 1E93
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