[pkg-gnupg-maint] Bug#868437: gnupg: does not work after installation

[Axel Stammler]

Package: gnupg
Version: 2.1.18-6
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,

after installation, any call to GPG, e.g.

   gpg --search Stammler

invariably produces the following messages:

gpg: failed to start the dirmngr '/usr/bin/dirmngr': No such file or directory
gpg: connecting dirmngr at '/run/user/1001/gnupg/S.dirmngr' failed: No such file or directory
gpg: error searching keyserver: No dirmngr
gpg: keyserver search failed: No dirmngr

I have tried copying a .gnupg directory from a Jessie installation but that does not change anything. The same output is produced if GPG is called by root as opposed to a regular user.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 9.0
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_IE.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_IE.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_IE:en (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages gnupg depends on:
ii  gnupg-agent    2.1.18-6
ii  libassuan0     2.4.3-2
ii  libbz2-1.0     1.0.6-8.1
ii  libc6          2.24-11+deb9u1
ii  libgcrypt20    1.7.6-2+deb9u1
ii  libgpg-error0  1.26-2
ii  libksba8       1.3.5-2
ii  libreadline7   7.0-3
ii  libsqlite3-0   3.16.2-5
ii  zlib1g         1:1.2.8.dfsg-5

Versions of packages gnupg recommends:
pn  dirmngr     <none>
pn  gnupg-l10n  <none>

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

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