From 22b3075bb216c69ee7660151fda4eda70b9c3296 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eli Zaretskii Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2017 11:48:15 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] * etc/NEWS: Mention the removal of pinentry.el. (Bug#27445) --- etc/NEWS | 13 +++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+) diff --git a/etc/NEWS b/etc/NEWS index 6e3001f5fa8..ccd819077ea 100644 --- a/etc/NEWS +++ b/etc/NEWS @@ -1489,6 +1489,19 @@ passing '&optional' multiple times: Previously, Emacs would just ignore the extra keyword, or give incorrect results in certain cases. +--- +** The pinentry.el library has been removed. +That package (and the corresponding change in GnuPG and pinentry) +was intended to provide a way to input passphrase through Emacs with +GnuPG 2.0. However, the change to support that was only implemented +in GnuPG >= 2.1 and didn't get backported to GnuPG 2.0. And with +GnuPG 2.1 and later, pinentry.el is not needed at all. So the +library was useless, and we removed it. GnuPG 2.0 is no longer +supported by the upstream project. + +To adapt to the change, you may need to set 'epa-pinentry-mode' to the +symbol 'loopback'. + * Lisp Changes in Emacs 26.1 -- 2.39.2