Package: gpg Version: 2.1.23-2 Severity: normal Hello Debian GnuPG Maintainers!
After today's upgrade, I refreshed some keys in my keyring and noticed that gpg has just become extremely verbose. For instance: $ gpg --refresh-keys 0xCCD2ED94D21739E9 gpg: refreshing 1 key from hkps://hkps.pool.sks-keyservers.net uid Daniel Kahn Gillmor <d...@aclu.org> sig! 0x5A94F3CA0B2713C8 2014-03-23 Ben Armstrong <synrg@sanctuary.nslug sig! 0xED1A3933B2CFCDD8 2014-09-02 Philipp Kern [... 644 lines snipped !!! ...] sub 0x1498ADC6C1923237 sig! 0xCCD2ED94D21739E9 2016-12-21 [self-signature] key 0xCCD2ED94D21739E9: 1 duplicate signature removed 780 signatures not checked due to missing keys gpg: key 0xCCD2ED94D21739E9: "Daniel Kahn Gillmor <d...@fifthhorseman.net>" not changed gpg: Total number processed: 1 gpg: unchanged: 1 In other words, 656 lines of output (on stderr) for 1 unchanged key! The output seems to be (more or less) the old output of "gpg --refresh-keys $KEYID", combined with the output of "gpg --check-sigs $KEYID". For reference, the old output was something like: $ gpg --refresh-keys 0xCCD2ED94D21739E9 gpg: refreshing 1 key from hkps://hkps.pool.sks-keyservers.net gpg: key 0xCCD2ED94D21739E9: "Daniel Kahn Gillmor <d...@fifthhorseman.net>" not changed gpg: Total number processed: 1 gpg: unchanged: 1 I cannot find any additional option to restore the previous behavior: $ gpg --no-verbose --refresh-keys 0xCCD2ED94D21739E9 produces the same lengthy output. $ gpg -q --refresh-keys 0xCCD2ED94D21739E9 suppresses the old (useful) output, while retaining the lengthy signature check output... Where am I going wrong? Could the old behavior be restored? Please fix this bug and/or forward my report upstream, as appropriate. Thanks for your time! -- System Information: Debian Release: buster/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (800, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 4.12.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US:en (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages gpg depends on: ii gpgconf 2.1.23-2 ii libassuan0 2.4.3-3 ii libbz2-1.0 1.0.6-8.1 ii libc6 2.24-17 ii libgcrypt20 1.7.9-1 ii libgpg-error0 1.27-3 ii libreadline7 7.0-3 ii libsqlite3-0 3.19.3-3 ii zlib1g 1:1.2.8.dfsg-5 Versions of packages gpg recommends: ii gnupg 2.1.23-2 gpg suggests no packages. -- no debconf information