[Pkg-gnupg-maint] Bug#634930: GPA maintenance

[Daniel Kahn Gillmor]

Hi Andreas--

[cc'ing 634930 at bugs.debian.org]

On 08/31/2014 01:32 PM, Andreas Rönnquist wrote:

> I am interested in helping out with GPA (I find it to be a very nice
> little tool), and I applaud your efforts to migrate the gnupg
> packaging repositories to git.
> 
> However, I don't really know what to do with #634930 [1], which is the
> only reason it isn't in testing. I have just now tested with a fresh
> virtual machine where it worked simply great, but I have previously
> also ran into the problems described there with "General Assuan error"
> which makes it unusable.
> 
> It would be really really nice to get GPA into testing before the
> freeze.
> 
> 1 - https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=634930

Thank you for stepping up to offer to look into this further!

It would be great to have more attention paid to GPA -- i just tried
testing it and i didn't get the errors reported, but i got different
errors and found that i couldn't use it.

I tried from a user account that doesn't have

The two dialogs i saw were:

------------------------------------------------------------------
 The GPGME library returned an unexpected error.  The error was:

  Unknown option

 This is probably a bug in GPA.
 GPA will now try to recover from this error.
                          [ Close ]
------------------------------------------------------------------



------------------------------------------------------------------
You do not have a private key yet.  Do you want to generate one now
(recommended) or do it later?

 [ Generate key now ] [ Do it later ]
------------------------------------------------------------------

This last dialog box just stays up, no matter what buttons i click.


Some possible questions that might make things clearer:

 * Have you tested it with from a new, clean user account?
 * What version of gnupg2 do you have installed?
 * What architecture are you using?
 * What desktop environment are you using?
 * What version of libassuan?

If you can figure out how to reproduce some of these problems, you might
consider looking into source.

I just moved the gpa debian packaging source to git.  You can clone it with:

 git clone git://git.debian.org/pkg-gnupg/gpa.git

Feel free to send patches to the list if you figure out needed fixes:

 git config sendemail.to pkg-gnupg-maint at lists.alioth.debian.org

thanks for the offer of help!  hopefully we can get gpa more cleaned up
together.

	--dkg

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