[Bug 515608] Re: pinentry-gtk2 sends the hitherto entered characters when Thunderbird stalls

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[Expired for pinentry (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60
days.]

** Changed in: pinentry (Ubuntu)
       Status: Incomplete => Expired

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Title:
  pinentry-gtk2 sends the hitherto entered characters when Thunderbird
  stalls

Status in pinentry package in Ubuntu:
  Expired

Bug description:
  Using Ubuntu 9.10 and pinentry-gtk2 0.7.6 it happens sometimes (in 1 of at most 10 cases) that Thunderbird suddenly stalls (greys out) and a window pops up, asking me if I want to kill the thunderbird process or cancel. I then need to click cancel and return to the pinentry dialogue.
  But instead of being able to continue with typing in my passphrase it has already sent the hitherto typed part of the passphrase which of course is wrong. Because of this, pinentry tells me that my passphrase was wrong and I have to retype it.

  It is OK that pinentry-gtk2 clears the input box in this case as it is
  quite cumbersome to continue with the passphrase (which one is the
  last character) but it shouldn't send the partial passphrase.

  % LC_ALL=C apt-cache policy pinentry-gtk2
  pinentry-gtk2:
    Installed: 0.7.6-0ubuntu1
    Candidate: 0.7.6-0ubuntu1
    Version table:
   *** 0.7.6-0ubuntu1 0
          500 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com karmic/main Packages
          100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

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