[Pkg-gnupg-maint] Bug#559104: info gpg-agent points at info gnupg "for full documentation", which is very terse

[Daniel Leidert]

Am Dienstag, den 01.12.2009, 23:20 +0100 schrieb Friedrich Delgado
Friedrichs:

> The last paragraph of man gpg-agent reads thus:
> 
> ,----[ gpg-agent(1) ]
>          The full documentation for this tool is maintained as a Texinfo manual.
>          If GnuPG and the info program are properly installed at your site,  the
>          command
> 
>            info gnupg
> 
>          should  give  you access to the complete manual including a menu struc‐
>          ture and an index.
> `----
> 
> However calling "info gnupg" in a shell gives me the gnupg manpage
> which is one paragraph of text.
> 
> Apparently I can get the full manual with "info gnupg1", however that
> contains no detailed information about gpg-agent, other than the
> command line switches of gpg and some environment variables.

You very probably want `info gnupg2' and not `info gnupg1'. The agent
doesn't play an important role for gnupg 1.4. But it does for gnupg 2,
which requires the agent.

Regards, Daniel