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

[Daniel Kahn Gillmor]

Control: clone -1 -2
Control: retitle -2 GPA fails obscurely when no gpg-agent is running
Control: severity -2 normal

On 08/31/2014 05:08 PM, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:
> 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.

Further testing reveals that the two dialog boxes show only when no
gpg-agent is present.

Instead of these behavior, GPA should probably detect the absence of an
agent, and either warn the user of its absence or start one up
automatically.

	--dkg



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