[Pkg-gnupg-maint] Bug#540098: gnupg: gen-key doesn't take secret-keyring option into account

[Olivier Berger]

Package: gnupg
Version: 1.4.9-4
Severity: normal

It seems that neither :
$ gpg --gen-key --secret-keyring /media/whatever/.gnupg-secret/secring.gpg
nor
$ gpg --secret-keyring /media/whatever/.gnupg-secret/secring.gpg --gen-key

allow to generate the new secret key in another keyring than ~/.gnupg/secring.gpg

Maybe --secret-keyring is only for other commands ? 

To me this looks like a bug.

Hope this helps.

Best regards,

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'testing-proposed-updates')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-1-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages gnupg depends on:
ii  gpgv                   1.4.9-4           GNU privacy guard - signature veri
ii  libbz2-1.0             1.0.5-2           high-quality block-sorting file co
ii  libc6                  2.9-12            GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libreadline5           5.2-4             GNU readline and history libraries
ii  libusb-0.1-4           2:0.1.12-13       userspace USB programming library
ii  zlib1g                 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-13 compression library - runtime

Versions of packages gnupg recommends:
ii  libldap-2.4-2                 2.4.11-1   OpenLDAP libraries

Versions of packages gnupg suggests:
ii  eog                        2.26.2-1      Eye of GNOME graphics viewer progr
pn  gnupg-doc                  <none>        (no description available)
ii  imagemagick                7:6.5.1.0-1.1 image manipulation programs
ii  libpcsclite1               1.5.4-1       Middleware to access a smart card 

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