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Bug#946879: git: please build package with libsecret credential helper

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Package: git
Version: 1:2.24.1+next.20191209-1
Severity: wishlist

Currently, anyone who wants to store passwords with Git in a secure way
must build their own credential helpers from the files in
/usr/share/doc.  This leads users to use less secure ways of storing
passwords, such as using URLs with passwords in them or using the git
credential-store helper.

It would be great if the libsecret credential helper could be built in
its own package so that folks could easily use it.  The gnome-keyring
one is not required because it implements the libsecret API and so is
redundant.  If you wanted to create a generic package, you could also
add the netrc credential helper, although I believe that's no longer
required with recent versions of libcurl.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: bullseye/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 5.3.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_WARN
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages git depends on:
ii  git-man          1:2.24.1+next.20191209-1
ii  libc6            2.29-6
ii  libcurl3-gnutls  7.67.0-2
ii  liberror-perl    0.17028-1
ii  libexpat1        2.2.9-1
ii  libpcre2-8-0     10.34-7
ii  perl             5.30.0-9
ii  zlib1g           1:1.2.11.dfsg-1+b1

Versions of packages git recommends:
ii  ca-certificates              20190110
ii  less                         551-1
ii  openssh-client [ssh-client]  1:8.1p1-2
ii  patch                        2.7.6-6

Versions of packages git suggests:
ii  gettext-base                          0.19.8.1-10
pn  git-cvs                               <none>
pn  git-daemon-run | git-daemon-sysvinit  <none>
pn  git-doc                               <none>
pn  git-el                                <none>
ii  git-email                             1:2.24.1+next.20191209-1
pn  git-gui                               <none>
pn  git-mediawiki                         <none>
pn  git-svn                               <none>
pn  gitk                                  <none>
pn  gitweb                                <none>

-- no debconf information

-- 
brian m. carlson: Houston, Texas, US
OpenPGP: https://keybase.io/bk2204

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Bug#946879: git: please build package with libsecret credential helper "brian m. carlson" <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net> - 2019-12-17 01:40 +0100
  Bug#946879: git: please build package with libsecret credential helper Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> - 2019-12-17 02:30 +0100

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