Re: About the removal of pinentry.el

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Nicolas Petton <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden
> Date: Mon, 08 Jan 2018 22:45:00 +0100
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > Where do you see a reference to pinentry-emacs in NEWS?  Or maybe I'm
> > missing something obvious here.
> 
> Isn't pinentry-emacs only working when the pinentry service has been
> started with `pinentry-start' (which was defined in pinentry.el)?

Once again, the NEWS entry doesn't mention pinentry-emacs at all.  So
I wonder what is it that I'm missing here.

AFAIU, the NEWS entry just says that pinentry.el and the related
features are not needed with GnuPG >= 2.1, and are not very useful
with GnuPG < 2.1.  That's why we removed it: its only effect was to
confuse users.