[Pkg-gnupg-maint] Bug#630388: gnupg: `gpg --edit-key notexist' silently does nothing

[Mark Wooding]

Package: gnupg
Version: 1.4.11-3
Severity: normal


If you try to edit a key with an unrecognized id, GPG doesn't print
anything other than its usual copyright banner, and exits zero.  With
`--no-greeting', it prints nothing at all.

[ponder ~]gpg --no-greeting --edit-key notexist
[ponder ~]echo $?
0

This isn't a helpful indication that one has typed a keyid wrongly.  By
contrast, `--list-keys notexist' reports

gpg: error reading key: public key not found

and exits with status 2.

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

Kernel: Linux 2.6.38-2-686-bigmem (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages gnupg depends on:
ii  dpkg                    1.16.0.3         Debian package management system
ii  gpgv                    1.4.11-3         GNU privacy guard - signature veri
ii  install-info            4.13a.dfsg.1-6   Manage installed documentation in 
ii  libbz2-1.0              1.0.5-6          high-quality block-sorting file co
ii  libc6                   2.13-4           Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libreadline6            6.2-2            GNU readline and history libraries
ii  libusb-0.1-4            2:0.1.12-17      userspace USB programming library
ii  zlib1g                  1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3 compression library - runtime

Versions of packages gnupg recommends:
pn  gnupg-curl                   <none>      (no description available)
ii  libldap-2.4-2                2.4.25-1+b1 OpenLDAP libraries

Versions of packages gnupg suggests:
ii  eog                       2.30.2-1       Eye of GNOME graphics viewer progr
pn  gnupg-doc                 <none>         (no description available)
ii  imagemagick               8:6.6.0.4-3+b1 image manipulation programs
ii  libpcsclite1              1.7.2-2        Middleware to access a smart card 

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