[Pkg-privacy-maintainers] Bug#827311: Bug#827311: parcimonie can't find the keyserver for gpg2

[Daniel Kahn Gillmor]

On Wed 2016-06-22 12:44:01 -0400, Sven Bartscher wrote:
> On Wed, 15 Jun 2016 18:15:16 -0400
> Daniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg at fifthhorseman.net> wrote:
>
>> what version of gnupg2 do you have installed? 
>
> 2.1.11-7
 [...]
> Do I really need to configure the keyserver in the dirmngr.conf? If so,
> that would be a bit inconvenient, as gpg2 itself is fine with having
> the keyserver configured in gpg.conf.

in 2.1.9, gpg started deprecating that option.  From gnupg's NEWS file:

  * dirmngr: Add option --keyserver.  Deprecate that option for gpg.

But the error you originally cited was a parcimonie error, not a gpg
error, right?  i don't know enough about parcimonie to know why it might
think there are different rules for the different versions.

I recommend that you put your preferred keyserver into dirmngr.conf,
even if it duplicates the entry in gpg.conf.  does that solve the
parcimonie issue?

     --dkg