[pkg-gnupg-maint] Bug#917825: gpg: GPG_AGENT_INFO is set even though 'man gpg' says it is deprecated

[Alison Chaiken]

Package: gpg
Version: 2.2.12-1
Severity: normal
Tags: upstream

Dear Maintainer,

'man gpg' shows:

       GPG_AGENT_INFO
              This variable is obsolete; it was used  by  GnuPG  versions  before
              2.1.

but we find

    $ echo $GPG_AGENT_INFO
    /run/user/1000/gnupg/S.gpg-agent:0:1
    $ gpg --version
    gpg (GnuPG) 2.2.12

My gpg.conf file includes no customization beyond setting the default
key.

Perhaps the man page is simply incorrect, but it would be odd if (for
once) the man page describes a newer version of the application than
Debian is shipping.

Thanks for volunteering for Debian, and for such an important package.
-- Alison Chaiken

-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (700, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

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

Versions of packages gpg depends on:
ii  gpgconf        2.2.12-1
ii  libassuan0     2.5.2-1
ii  libbz2-1.0     1.0.6-9
ii  libc6          2.28-2
ii  libgcrypt20    1.8.4-4
ii  libgpg-error0  1.33-3
ii  libreadline7   7.0-5
ii  libsqlite3-0   3.26.0-3
ii  zlib1g         1:1.2.11.dfsg-1

Versions of packages gpg recommends:
ii  gnupg  2.2.12-1

gpg suggests no packages.

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