[pkg-gnupg-maint] Bug#985158: Bug#985158: gpg: No longer reads .gnupg/options

[Werner Koch]

On Sat, 13 Mar 2021 20:40, Kurt Roeckx said:

> It seems that the config file ~/.gnupg/options is no longer read,
> and it's now reading (among others) ~/.gnupg/gpg.conf

Oops. I totally forgot about this this legacy file.  The reason for this
is that we switched to a new option parser which also features global
config files.

Right, that should not have happened.  Fixing this if complicated and
thus I would suggest to use a symlink or way better to get rename the
file.

This 19 year old NEWS entry gives some historic background:

Noteworthy changes in version 1.1.92 (2002-09-11)
-------------------------------------------------

    * [IMPORTANT] The default configuration file is now
      ~/.gnupg/gpg.conf.  If an old ~/.gnupg/options is found it will
      still be used.  This change is required to have a more
      consistent naming scheme with forthcoming tools.


Shalom-Salam,

   Werner


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