[pkg-gnupg-maint] Bug#833481: Bug#833481: gnupg: please document that --yes doesn't (usually?) work without --batch

[Daniel Kahn Gillmor]

Control: forwarded 833481 https://bugs.gnupg.org/gnupg/issue2436
Control: tags 833481 + upstream

On Thu 2016-08-04 21:33:32 -0400, Adam Borowski wrote:
> I've just wasted a bunch of time trying to figure why --yes doesn't work as
> documented (and neither works, eg, "yes|gpg").  It turns out the option is
> silently ignored unless --batch is also specified.
>
> Not sure if this applies to all prompts or just --delete-keys I tried it on.

thanks for this report, it does sound frustrating.  I think it'd be
better if it was easier to understand and intuit, not just
better-documented.  I've just opened an upstream report about it, linked
above.

Regards,

        --dkg
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