[Pkg-gnupg-maint] Bug#200184: annoying "remove the secret key too" barrier

[Thijs Kinkhorst]

Hi René,

> (doing the commenting)
> rene at frodo:~$ LANG="C" gpg --no-default-keyring --keyring elug-keyring.gpg
> --delete-key 248aeb73 gpg: there is a secret key for public key "248aeb73"!
> gpg: use option "--delete-secret-keys" to delete it first.

What do you expect gpg to do here? The man page is clear 
that --no-default-keyring doesn't apply to the secret keyring, you need to 
specify that separately (e.g. --secret-keyring /dev/null)


cheers,
Thijs
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