[pkg-gnupg-maint] Bug#878936: Solved: gpg - Inaccessible keys (?) after upgrade

[Frank B. Brokken]

Dear maintainer(s),

Wrt the bugreport I filed yesterday: after closely reading Gnu's gnupg
documentation I solved the problem I encountered yesterday, so I think this
issue can be closed.

My current gpg.conf file now merely needs 

    use-agent

(and so `pinentry-mode loopback' was removed). My gpg-agent.conf file now
contains

    default-cache-ttl 1200
    pinentry-program /usr/bin/pinentry-curses


and so the line `allow-loopback-pinentry' was removed (the more generic
specification `pinentry-program /usr/bin/pinentry' probably also works, but so
far I didn't configure that)

In addition, whenever I open a new terminal (xterm, rxvt, virtual terminal)
the session's startup script executes (for bash):

    GPG_TTY=`tty`           # note the backticks!
    export GPG_TTY

For tcsh it is:

    setenv GPG_TTY `tty`    # note the backticks!

After these specifications gpg again worked as before.

Kind regards,

-- 
    Frank B. Brokken
    Center for Information Technology, University of Groningen
    (+31) 50 363 9281 
    Public PGP key: http://pgp.surfnet.nl
    Key Fingerprint: DF32 13DE B156 7732 E65E  3B4D 7DB2 A8BE EAE4 D8AA