[pkg-gnupg-maint] Bug#836266: dirmngr: Please disable "use-tor" by default.

[Felipe Sateler]

On Thu, 01 Sep 2016 17:00:19 +0900 Kyuma Ohta
<whatisthis.sowhat at gmail.com> wrote:
> Package: dirmngr
> Version: 2.1.15-2
> Severity: important
>
> Dear Maintainer,
> Running gnupg2 with dirmngr, sometimes failed to connect to keyserver.
> I checked configuration files, automatically add "use-tor" to
> ~/.gnupg/dirmngr.conf .
> So, I stopped dirmngr via gpgconf, and delete this line of dirmngr.conf,
> and running gnupg2 to access to keyserver, this succeeded.
>
> But, after about 15min, re-run gnupg2 to access to keyserver, faied.
> I checked dirmngr.conf again, added "use-tor" again (；´Д｀)
>
> At some ISPs, tor connection has rejected by default, maybe gnupg2
> fails to connect to keyserver by default.
>

Not only this, but dirmngr does not detect the availability of tor,
and thus fails to work if tor is not installed (or uninstalled after
the first use).


Saludos