[pkg-gnupg-maint] Bug#1071368: [gpgv] cmd-arg parse error with apt/aptitude update

[Andreas Metzler]

On 2024-05-17 Lyndon Brown <jnqnfe at gmail.com> wrote:
> Package: gpgv
> Version: 2.2.43-4
> Severity: important

> Since sometime last night I'm seeing an error as below when using `apt-
> get update` or `aptitude update`. I'm guessing wrt. the earliest
> affected version. I've no idea how important an issue this may be, so
> cautiously marking important.
[...]
> $ sudo aptitude update
> Hit https://deb.debian.org/debian sid InRelease
> Hit https://deb.debian.org/debian rc-buggy InRelease
> W: https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/sid/InRelease: Unknown response from gpgv to --assert-pubkey-algo check: gpgv:   error: Error parsing command-line arguments
[...]

Hello,

afaict that happens in apt-key, what does

env LC_ALL=C.UTF-8 gpgv --assert-pubkey-algo

output on your system?

cu Andreas
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