Package: gnupg Version: 1.4.9-3 Severity: normal The GNU Privacy Handbook says:
Safely storing your private key is important, but there is a cost. Ideally, you would keep the private key on a removable, write-protected disk such as a floppy disk, and you would use it on a single-user machine not connected to a network. However, it turns out gpg makes following this advice hard. If ~/.gnupg/secring.gpg is a symlink (in my case, to a file on a USB fob), and the keyring changes (for example, deleting a public-private key pair), gpg breaks the symlink and creates a new file where the symlink was, instead of modifying the target of the symlink. -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.26.5matica2008090801 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages gnupg depends on: ii gpgv 1.4.9-3 GNU privacy guard - signature veri ii libbz2-1.0 1.0.5-1 high-quality block-sorting file co ii libc6 2.7-13 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libreadline5 5.2-3 GNU readline and history libraries ii libusb-0.1-4 2:0.1.12-12 userspace USB programming library ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-12 compression library - runtime Versions of packages gnupg recommends: ii libldap-2.4-2 2.4.10-3 OpenLDAP libraries Versions of packages gnupg suggests: pn gnupg-doc <none> (no description available) ii graphicsmagick-imagemagick-co 1.1.11-3.1 image processing tools providing I pn libpcsclite1 <none> (no description available) ii xloadimage 4.1-16 Graphics file viewer under X11 -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]