gpg spams the terminal with passphrase message

[Bogdan Butnaru]

Binary package hint: gnupg

For some reason gpg insists on spamming the console with this useless message:
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$ gpg --quiet --no-use-agent --sign --passphrase XXX -u "YYY" --output SIG FILE &> /dev/null

You need a passphrase to unlock the secret key for
user: "YYY"
1024-bit DSA key, ID FFD40F72, created 2007-12-01

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This is despite the fact that:
a) the passphrase is given on the command line (yeah, I know, it's OK here)
b) I told it to be quiet
c) I told it not to use the agent
d) I redirected both outputs to /dev/null
e) it doesn't actually _ask_ for the password (see point a) and the signing works.

I don't even know _how_ it does that with the outputs redirected. Anyway, this is really annoying in scripts.

[Andreas Moog (ampelbein)]

Don't know if this should be considered a bug after all, but adding --batch does the trick:

gpg --quiet --no-use-agent --batch --sign --passphrase XXX -u "YYY" --output SIG FILE &> /dev/null

[Thijs Kinkhorst (kink)]

--batch is indeed the intended way to go here. Discussion with upstream concluded that it's just not worth fixing the case where --batch is left out.