[pkg-gnupg-maint] Bug#834548: gnupg2: Ignores secret-keyring config when importing secret keys from gpg1

[Mike Hommey]

Package: gnupg2
Version: 2.1.11-7
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,

The recent upgrade of gnupg left me with with no usable private keys.
gpg -K would display nothing. (the package version information comes
from a downgrade, don't trust it).

The core problem, as it seems, is that my gpg.conf has a secret-keyring
config item pointing to a file that is not ~/.gnupg/secret.gpg and that
contains my private keys. But gpg2 seems to always want to import
~/.gnupg/secret.gpg, disregarding the config.

So, it would seem the workaround for me is to copy that secret-keyring
to ~/.gnupg/secret.gpg, have gpg2 do its conversion, then move the
private-keys-v1.d directory where the secret-keyring used to be... and
create a symbolic link, since apparently, there's no option like
secret-keyring to point to a different directory...


Mike


-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.6.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=ja_JP.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=ja_JP.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages gnupg2 depends on:
ii  dpkg           1.18.10
ii  gnupg-agent    2.1.11-7
ii  install-info   6.1.0.dfsg.1-8
ii  libassuan0     2.4.3-1
ii  libbz2-1.0     1.0.6-8
ii  libc6          2.23-4
ii  libgcrypt20    1.7.2-2
ii  libgpg-error0  1.24-1
ii  libksba8       1.3.4-4
ii  libreadline6   6.3-8+b4
ii  libsqlite3-0   3.14.1-1
ii  zlib1g         1:1.2.8.dfsg-2+b1

Versions of packages gnupg2 recommends:
ii  dirmngr  2.1.14-5

Versions of packages gnupg2 suggests:
pn  gnupg-doc   <none>
pn  parcimonie  <none>
pn  xloadimage  <none>

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