[pkg-gnupg-maint] Bug#796931: gnupg-agent: no longer writes $GNUPGHOME/gpg-agent-info-$(hostname) file

[Thorsten Glaser]

severity 796931 serious
thanks

On Tue, 25 Aug 2015, Thorsten Glaser wrote:

> particular sharing now becomes impossible).

It’s actually worse: when using startx or no X environment
at all, I can no longer use gpg-agent:

tglase at tglase-nb:~ $ eval $(gpg-agent --daemon --sh)
tglase at tglase-nb:~ $ gpg --clearsign <<<x

You need a passphrase to unlock the secret key for
user: "Thorsten Glaser (tarent GmbH) <t.glaser at tarent.de>"
4096-bit RSA key, ID 5EB8D3B3, created 2009-01-05

gpg: gpg-agent is not available in this session
Enter passphrase: 


Apparently, this does work with gpg2…

tglase at tglase-nb:~ $ gpg2 --clearsign <<<x                                                                      
gpg: keyserver option 'verbose' is unknown
gpg: keyserver option 'verbose' is unknown
gpg: starting migration from earlier GnuPG versions
gpg: porting secret keys from '/home/tglase/.gnupg/secring.gpg' to gpg-agent
gpg: key 5EB8D3B3: secret key imported
gpg: key 272AD62F: secret key imported
gpg: key EB839C67: secret key imported
gpg: key E780F2AB: secret key imported
gpg: key 82C875DC: secret key imported
gpg: migration succeeded
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA384

x
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v2
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=j0q+
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----


… as a repeat attempt does not ask me for the password, but this
is clearly inacceptable because gpg2 is no replacement for gpg,
but a totally separate tool with different use cases.

bye,
//mirabilos
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