[Pkg-gnupg-commit] r107 - /gnupg/trunk/debian/BUGS.Debian.html

Fri May 22 21:36:40 UTC 2009

Author: dleidert-guest
Date: Fri May 22 21:36:40 2009
New Revision: 107

URL: http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/pkg-gnupg/?sc=1&rev=107
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* debian/BUGS.Debian.html: Added. I plan to move descriptions and explanations
  from WONTFIX-bugs into this document and use a presubj to point to this
  document. So we can further clean the BTS.


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+<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
+<html>
+<head>
+  <title>Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) for gnupg for Debian</title>
+  <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
+  <meta name="date" content="2009-05-14T11:20:58+0200">
+</head>
+<body>
+<h1>Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) for gnupg in Debian</h1>
+<p>This file is intended to collect information about issues and limitations in
+<a href="http://www.gnupg.org">gnupg</a>, which have been reported to
+<a href="http://bugs.debian.org/src:gnupg">the Debian bug-tracking system
+(<abbr title="Bug Tracking System">BTS</abbr>)</a> for gnupg. Make sure you
+checked the information here before reporting an issue to the
+<abbr title="Bug Tracking System">BTS</abbr>.</p>
+
+<dl>
+
+<dt>Q: GnuPG suggests to use <tt>--fix-trustdb</tt> but this is not yet implemented</dt>
+<dd>
+	<p>The function of this switch will be implemented as soon as someone writes the necessary code ;) Please don't bug us with complaints about this.</p>
+	<p><a href="http://bugs.debian.org/196860">Debian bug #196860</a>, <a href="https://bugs.g10code.com/gnupg/issue929">GnuPG bug #929</a></p>
+</dd>
+
+<dt>Q: Piping content to gpg: <tt>echo foo | gpg --use-agent ... </tt> errors out with <code>gpg: cancelled by
+user</code></dt>
+<dd>
+	<p>This might happen, when gpg is unable to determine the correct name of the terminal. You can check the terminal given to the agent by running <tt>gpg-agent</tt> with the <tt>--debug-level advanced</tt> switch. The output might contain:</p>
+	<pre>gpg-agent[XXX] DBG: <- OPTION ttyname=/dev/tty</pre>
+	<p>whereas the output of <tt>tty</tt> says</p>
+	<pre>/dev/pts/<var>X</var></pre>
+	<p>You'll have to set <var>GPG_TTY</var> to point to the correct terminal (see also <tt>gpg-agent(1)</tt>).</p>
+	<p><a href="http://bugs.debian.org/359758">Debian bug #359758</a>, <a href="https://bugs.g10code.com/gnupg/issue1047">GnuPG bug #1047</a></p>
+</dd>
+
+<dt>Q: I get a passphrase entry window (from pinentry*) although I used the --passphrase switch.</dt>
+<dd>
+  <blockquote cite="http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=427857#10"><p>[..] That is as it should be. [..]</p></blockquote>
+  <p><tt>gpg</tt> won't send the value of <tt>--passphrase</tt> given on the command line to the configured agent.</p>
+  <p><a href="http://bugs.debian.org/427857">Debian bug #427857</a></p>
+</dd>
+
+<dt>Q: GnuPG dies with "<code>Ohhhh jeeeee: ... this is a bug</code>".</dt>
+<dd>
+  <p>Since <a href="http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/g/gnupg/current/changelog#versionversion1.4.6-2.2">gnupg 1.4.6-2.2</a> we don't install the <tt>gpg(1)</tt> binary setuid root anymore. If you observe the error message because of this change, then you can use <tt>dpkg-statoverride(1)</tt> to change the permissions of the binary permanently (for example to set them setuid root):</p>
+  <pre>dpkg-statoverride --update --add root root 4755 /usr/bin/gpg</pre>
+  <p><a href="http://bugs.debian.org/485458">Debian bug #485458</a></p>
+</dd>
+
+</dl>
+<address>Daniel Leidert &lt;daniel.leidert at wgdd.de&gt;</address>
+</body>
+</html>


