It has required that there is a section about this in the GnuPG Wiki ( http://wiki.gnupg.org/PlatformNotes ). And related problems are regularly raised on the gnupg-users mailing list.
There was a thread on the gnupg-devel mailing list involving the gnome-keyring maintainer that shows some standpoints of this problem:
This also breaks GPA ( https:/ /bugs.launchpad .net/ubuntu/ +source/ gpa/+bug/ 1381926 ) and S/MIME support in Kontact.
It has required that there is a section about this in the GnuPG Wiki ( http:// wiki.gnupg. org/PlatformNot es ). And related problems are regularly raised on the gnupg-users mailing list.
There was a thread on the gnupg-devel mailing list involving the gnome-keyring maintainer that shows some standpoints of this problem:
http:// lists.gnupg. org/pipermail/ gnupg-devel/ 2014-August/ 028690. html
Imho it is an Ubuntu problem and not an Upstream problem. Ubuntu decides to create: /etc/xdg/ autostart/ gnome-keyring- gpg.desktop
And thus deliberately breaks gnupg2 by default.