Package: gnupg Version: 2.1.14-5 Severity: serious Justification: breaks other software, should not migrate to testing because of this
After the switch of gpg to gnupg2, Gajim can no longer use PGP. Observed behaviour: On first start, I get a pinentry field asking me to enter my password, despite having started gpg-agent as part of the session. Entering it only makes it wait for a while, then show the dialogue box I attached. On second start, it just takes a while during connecting, then shows that dialogue box. I can confirm this is a gnupg2 issue because after running… tglase@tglase:~ $ sudo dpkg-divert --local --rename --divert /usr/bin/gpg.from.gnupg2 --add /usr/bin/gpg [sudo] password for tglase: Adding 'local diversion of /usr/bin/gpg to /usr/bin/gpg.from.gnupg2' tglase@tglase:~ $ sudo ln -s gpg1 /usr/bin/gpg … and restarting Gajim, it works well with PGP again. I’ll run my system with that for now. Please ensure I’m notified, e.g. by mailing nnnnnn-submitter, if I should remove the diversion. (Replacing gpg by gnupg2 is about as bad an idea as replacing python by python3 in some distros was. Don’t do it, or make it selectable by update-alternatives at least. gnupg2 is a different software, and even upstream says it doesn’t replace gpg, both have different use cases. Scripts, especially, will want an isolated instance instead of using one integrated with a user’s desktop.) -- System Information: Debian Release: stretch/sid APT prefers unreleased APT policy: (500, 'unreleased'), (500, 'buildd-unstable'), (500, 'unstable') Architecture: x32 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386, amd64 Kernel: Linux 4.6.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/lksh Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init) Versions of packages gnupg depends on: ii gnupg-agent 2.1.14-5 ii libassuan0 2.4.3-1 ii libbz2-1.0 1.0.6-8 ii libc6 2.23-4 ii libgcrypt20 1.7.2-2 ii libgpg-error0 1.24-1 ii libksba8 1.3.4-4 ii libreadline6 6.3-8+b4 ii libsqlite3-0 3.14.1-1 ii zlib1g 1:1.2.8.dfsg-2+b2 Versions of packages gnupg recommends: ii dirmngr 2.1.14-5 pn gnupg-l10n <none> Versions of packages gnupg suggests: pn parcimonie <none> ii xloadimage 4.1-23+b1 -- no debconf information
