[pkg-gnupg-maint] Bug#645426: gpg --homedir /nonexistent --gen-key goes through the entire key generation process, then errors out

[Andreas Metzler]

Control: tags -1 wontfix
Control: found -1 2.4.7-1

On 2011-10-15 Josh Triplett <josh at joshtriplett.org> wrote:
> Package: gnupg
> Version: 1.4.11-3
> Severity: normal

> For a quick test, I needed to generate a temporary GPG key.  I started
> with "gpg --homedir /tmp/gpg-temp --gen-key".  This walked me all the
> way through the key generation process, including lengthy entropy
> collection, before erroring out because the directory didn't exist (I'd
> expected gpg to create it):
[...]

This was marked wontfix and closed upstream:

| Werner said:
| > GnuPG tries to create its _default_ home directory because this is the
| > common case. Creating a home directory in every case would clutter the
| > disk with gnupg related data which may even be sensitive.
| 
| Closing as wontfix.