Hi,

the 48.0-2 upload dropped the ssh agent:

"Stop building gnome-keyring ssh-agent in favour of gcr4 ssh-agent"

After upgrading yesterday and debugging for half an hour why my
ssh-agent was falling back to this, I found the root cause.
This is a breaking change as users might depend on it. Please add a news
entry that users should install gcr4 and use /usr/libexec/gcr-ssh-agent
from now on.
This might be my nice usecase since I am on sway; nevertheless, please
document this.

best,

werdahias

- -- System Information:
Debian Release: forky/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 6.12.38+deb13-amd64 (SMP w/16 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: OpenRC (via /run/openrc), PID 1: init
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages gnome-keyring depends on:
ii  dbus-x11 [dbus-session-bus]                  1.16.2-2
ii  dconf-gsettings-backend [gsettings-backend]  0.40.0-5
ii  gcr                                          3.41.2-3
ii  init-system-helpers                          1.68
ii  libc6                                        2.41-12
ii  libgck-1-0                                   3.41.2-3
ii  libgcr-base-3-1                              3.41.2-3
ii  libgcrypt20                                  1.11.2-2
ii  libglib2.0-0t64                              2.84.4-2
ii  libsystemd0                                  258~rc2-2
ii  p11-kit                                      0.25.5-3
ii  pinentry-gnome3                              1.3.2-3

Versions of packages gnome-keyring recommends:
ii  gnome-keyring-pkcs11  48.0-3
ii  libpam-gnome-keyring  48.0-1

gnome-keyring suggests no packages.

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Hi again,

turns out my issue was slightly different -- gcr4 did get automatically
installed, but it was broken. Another apt update && upgrade fixed that (but
strangely that needed a reboot, just logging out and in did not suffice).

Kind regards,
Ralf

Hi all,

I can only second this -- I just went on a 20-minute journey to figure out where
I have to report the bug that the most recent update broke the SSH agent, only
to realize that this was apparently intentional?

Kind regards,
Ralf

ssh-agent from gnome-keyring is still used in a XFCE, instead of grc4.

So please re-enable ssh-agent support in gnome-keyring.

Please file a bug against xfce4 for that issue. The recent
gnome-keyring packaging change is only following the upstream default.

Thank you,
Jeremy Bícha