[pkg-gnupg-maint] Bug#821808: Bug#821808: Acknowledgement (libgpgme11: Fails to locate new key in agent (wrong keygrip?))

[Daniel Kahn Gillmor]

On Tue 2016-04-19 20:27:38 -0400, Matthew Gabeler-Lee wrote:
> On Tue, 19 Apr 2016, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:
>
>> Thanks for the followup.  I'm closing this report since there's a clear
>> workaround.  However, gpg2 (from the 2.1 branch) should have migrated
>> your secret keyring automatically the first time it ever encountered
>> them.
>
> It did do that properly.  My problem was having created a new key with 
> gpg long after gpg2 ran that migration.

ah, right, understood.  I don't think that the gpg2 migration process
has any way to account for this situation. :(

All the more reason we should rip off the bandaid and just transition
already.

>> fwiw, i'm hoping that gpg and gpg2 will be the same thing (from the
>> 2.1.x sources) in debian in the not-too-distant future.
>
> :happydance:

glad you're happy about it too :)

     --dkg