Doesn't create settings correctly on first start

[Sebastian Breier]

Binary package hint: gnupg

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tomcat@merau:~$ gpg
gpg: directory `/home/tomcat/.gnupg' created
gpg: can't open `/gnupg/options.skel': No such file or directory
gpg: keyring `/home/tomcat/.gnupg/secring.gpg' created
gpg: keyring `/home/tomcat/.gnupg/pubring.gpg' created
gpg: Go ahead and type your message ...

gpg: Interrupt caught ... exiting
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Seems like the default option files are not set correctly.

Happens on feisty.

[Michael Bienia (geser)]

Thanks for your bug report.

This was already reported to the gnupg developers: http://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-devel/2006-December/023461.html

The relevant svn commit should be
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=gnupg-commit-watchers&m=116549111216855&w=2

[Luis F. Lopez (luis.lopez)]

A work-around for this issue is to copy the options file from /usr/share/gnupg:

~$ cp /usr/share/gnupg/options.skel ~/.gnugpg/gpg.conf

[Fabien Tassin (fta)]

Still not integrated into Gutsy. The patch has been created more than 6 months ago and is quite simple.
Please consider it at least for 1.4.6-2ubuntu3.

[Scott Kitterman (kitterman)]

I've attached a debdiff for where I've gotten on the gnupg bugs that I think should be addressed in this upload. I've built and installed the resulting package on Feisty (I'm waiting for libcurl to get straight before I start running Gutsy). I've verified that the 61 patch to modify the default skeleton file for Bug #15485 works and the file is correctly modified and installed in /usr/share/gnupg. What still isn't happening even after the changes linked to above from upsteam (currently codified in the 60 patch) is the copying to the user's gpg.conf.

So, please have a look.

[Scott Kitterman (kitterman)]

There is one error in the debdiff....

The 60 patch is commented out in 00list. That's not the cause of my problem.

[Michael Bienia (geser)]

Here is an updated debdiff. Changes compared to the previous debdiff:

* Enable the 60 patch in 00list
* Update the 60 patch to also apply the changes to configure and g10/Makefile.in

* Add libcurl4-gnutls-dev to build-depends. This fixes bug #62864 for me.

[Kees Cook (kees)]

This looks good; one question: why does patch 60 have log_error switched to log_info?

[Scott Kitterman (kitterman)]

It was in the same svn commit as the fix for installing the conf file and seemed to make sense.

I don't think its critical if you don't want to make the change, but haven't tested without it.

[Kees Cook (kees)]

I think it is cleaner to separate logical changes, so I have dropped the logging portion of the patch. Everything else looks (and works) great. Thanks, I've uploaded it! :)

[Michael Bienia (geser)]

gnupg (1.4.6-2ubuntu3) gutsy; urgency=low

  [ Scott Kitterman ]
  * Add 'debian/patches/60_install_options_skel.dpatch': Patch to
    install options file from upstream (LP: #76983)
  * Add 'debian/patches/61_use_agent_default.dpatch': Patch to set gpg
    (or gpg2) and gpgsm to use a passphrase agent by default (LP: #15485)
  * Add 'debian/patches/70_trust_error.dpatch': Patch to disallow illegal
    zero response for trust level changes (LP: #39459)

  [ Michael Bienia ]
  * Add libcurl4-gnutls-dev to Build-Depends to fix gpg running into a timeout
    updating the keyring (LP: #62864)

 -- Michael Bienia <email address hidden> Fri, 06 Jul 2007 20:56:05 +0200

[Sebastian Breier (tomcat42)]

Big THANK YOU for fixing this. This bug really shouldn't have been in a release, but at least it's fixed now. :-)

[Scott Kitterman (kitterman)]

Just a note for anyone finding this bug later:

~/.gnupg/gpg.conf only gets installed if there is not ~/.gnupg dir for the user (e.g. on first run of gpg), so existing users that installed when this bug existed will have to:

$ cp /usr/share/gnupg/options.skel ~/.gnugpg/gpg.conf

to correct this problem. We discussed options to automate this on IRC and concluded that the automatic options were all too risky.