Re: gnome-keyring deprecated?

Simon McVittie <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.debian.devel.gtk-gnome
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Wed, 29 Nov 2017 at 06:57:06 +0000, Phil Wyett wrote:
> On Tue, 2017-11-28 at 22:03 -0800, Josh Triplett wrote:
> > I'm curious about the mention of gnome-keyring being deprecated. I
> > haven't heard anything about that. Where might I find more information
> > about that, and what is the intended replacement?
> 
> xul-ext-gnome-keyring depends on libgnome-keyring that is deprecated in favour
> of libsecret for use with applications such as gnome-keyring.

I've adjusted the changelog in svn to clarify the situation.

gnome-keyring, an implementation of the "Secret Service" D-Bus API, is
still a core part of GNOME. libgnome-keyring, an old library for
communicating with gnome-keyring, was superseded by libsecret,
a library for communicating with Secret Service implementations.

    smcv
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